LAGOS, Nigeria — Entombed at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in an upended tugboat for three days, Harrison Odjegba Okene begged God for a miracle. The Nigerian cook survived by breathing an… ...

Harrison Okene survived almost 3 days inside a sunken vessel. In one of the most shocking tales of survival-at-sea ever told, a man lived for almost three days inside a sunken ship at the bottom ...

Turns out that an air bubble was Harrison Okene's savior. The Nigerian man had been lost at sea after his tugboat, the AHT Jascon-4, suddenly capsized and sank 100 feet below the surface of the ocean.

Okene initially swore never to go near the ocean but in 2015 he received his certification as a commercial diver. Nico van Heerden, who had found him at the bottom of the Atlantic two years ...

Harrison Odjegba Okene may be the luckiest man of 2013. The boat cook survived for 60 hours at the ocean’s bottom after his tugboat capsized in the Atlantic Ocean, according to TIME .

Okene happened to be on the toilet when the boat capsized. As it sank, he managed to find a four-square-foot air pocket within the boat, and stayed there in the pitch black dark, drinking Coca-Cola.

Okene said he spent another 60 hours in a decompression chamber where his body pressure was returned to normal. Had he just been exposed immediately to the outside air he would have died.