Man Survives on Bottom of Atlantic for Nearly 3 Days.

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Man Survives on Bottom of Atlantic for Nearly 3 Days.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/afr ... story.html

100 feet beneath the surface in a boat. Divers were searching for bodies when a hand popped out in the dark waters and grabbed back at a diver.

There's actual video of the rescue. It's a great moment to be looking for dead bodies, and find a living man.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/wo ... video.html
LAGOS, Nigeria — About 100 feet down, on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, divers had already pulled four bodies out of the sunken tugboat. Then a hand appeared on a TV screen monitoring the recovery.

Everyone assumed it was another corpse, and the diver moved toward it.

“But when he went to grab the hand, the hand grabbed him!” Tony Walker, project manager for the Dutch company DCN Diving, said of the rescue in May.

Harrison Odjegba Okene, the tug’s Nigerian cook, had survived for three days by breathing an ever-dwindling supply of oxygen in an air pocket. A video of Okene’s dramatic rescue — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArWGILmKCqE — was posted on the Internet more than six months after the rescue and has gone viral this week.
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I think they need to check their facts. The Atlantic is not 100 feet deep. :bangwall:

Other than that. It make me think of The Poseidon Adventure.
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I bet the rescue diver had to scrub out his wetsuit after that.

Great that they rescued the guy, though.
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IanKennedy wrote:I think they need to check their facts. The Atlantic is not 100 feet deep. :bangwall:

Other than that. It make me think of The Poseidon Adventure.
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Actually, no, the sides may be that deep but the bottom isn't. :)
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On the continental shelf you'd find many places that shallow or less.
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Just checked Google maps, and I can confirm the Atlantic ocean is covered in water, depth was no conveyed in the images provided.
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