On May 26, 2013, at the end of the day, an oil tanker was docked in the Gulf of Guinea, with three tugboats docked next to the cruise ship.
At five o'clock in the morning,The crew in the tugboat cabin had fallen asleep, Hanison Orkney felt a little sick in her stomach and got up to go to the bathroom.
Hanison, who had just crouched, suddenly felt the hull of the boat shake violently, and a large wave knocked the tugboat over, and then the entire cabin was floodedThe ship's eleven sleeping crew members and Hannison were swallowed up in the middle of the sea ......
"The tugboat was overturned by the waves, save people. ”The crew of the tanker noticed that the tugboat was sinking and called in the rest of the ship.
But in the face of this situation, a group of people was helpless and could not stop the ship from sinkingThe crew in the tugboat compartment could not open the hatch from the inside, they will not be able to carry out the rescue.
The crew of the tanker watched as the tugboat sank, and the captain had already sent a distress signal to the sea rescue team. By the time the nearest rescue team arrived at the accident area, several hours had passed since the tugboat accidentTheoretically, the limits of human existence have been exceeded.
The rescue team did not carry diving equipment, can only rely on a simple oxygen cylinder to dive, under the water can only vaguely see the tugboat thirty meters underwater, but can not get close.
With the mentality of just in case there are survivors, the rescue team patrols the nearby seasBut good luck didn't happenSo the poorly equipped rescue team chose to evacuate.
After the company to which the tanker belonged got the news of the ship's accident, ** hired a professional diving team and returned to the accident area on the third dayThe salvage of the wrecked hull and the bodies of the dead crew members was chosen. Several divers put on their diving equipment and jumped off the tugboat one by one.
Due to the tugboat falling into the sea, the sediment in this sea is still floatingThis adds considerable difficulty to the search of diversThe dive can only be carried out by the people on the surface who rely on the information transmitted to the diver by the underwater camera.
As the dive got deeper and deeper, the wreck was finally found, and it lay there quietly. The ship has flipped in one direction,The bottom of the boat is up, and the top of the boat is facing down.
Several divers began their workThe first step is to search for the bodies of the victims, and according to information provided by the company, there were 12 victims on board, including a Nigerian chef named Hanison Orkney.
Hanison Orkney.
Several people worked together to break open the hatch of the ship from the outside, this was the rest room of the crew, and the bodies of four crew members were floating inside, "bang bang bang".The sound of a knock on the hull could be heard further down in the cabin.
Several divers looked at each otherThe captain gestured for the body to be transported first, maybe it's just the sound of big fish and prawns colliding.
The divers then took the bodies of the crew out of the cabin, and then slowly swam to the surface with the dead crew members, bringing the four crew members back to the shipThe diving team changed the oxygen tank and dived again.
One of the divers began to swim deeper into the cabin, as he searched for the bodies of the victimsThe knocking sound is gone, and fell into a deathly silence underwater.
Suddenly, a human hand stretched out from the murky waters, almost touching the face of the diver, the diver was stunned.
The rescue team on the shore saw the scene through the camera worn by the diver, and the excited voice of the rescue team on the radio came over:"It's a living person, someone is still alive. ”
Only then did the dive crew realize thatIt turned out to be a living man's hand, but it's been nearly three days, how did he survive?
Several divers quickly moved closer to this position, and the shore rescue commander immediately gave a rescue plan and let two shore backup diversDive with a twenty-minute oxygen tank and a diving bell.
The survivor** was put on an oxygen cylinderSeveral members of the dive team then covered him with diving bells, safely transferred him to shore and immediately rushed him to the hospital.
A few days later, the survivor had almost recovered in the hospital, and it turned out that he was the ship's chef, Harrison Orkney, and the company's leaders and colleagues came to visit him in the hospital, but the most curious thing was thatIt's how Harrison survived underwater.
You must know that under thirty meters of water, Harrison has to face not only water temperature, oxygen, but also the pressure of the sea"How did you survive underwater for three days, tell us about it, it's a miracle. ”One colleague couldn't help the curiosity in his heart and took the lead in asking questions, while the others were also curious.
Harrison lay on his hospital bed, with a questioning look on his face"Three days?I thought it had only been a dozen hours. ”Harrison then recounted his dark time underwater.
At that time, after the tug was overturned, the water immediately entered the cabin, and soon overflowed Harrison's calf, and Harrison, who was originally panicked, was stimulated by the icy waterFinally calmed down a little.
The water level is still risingHarrison took advantage of the fact that he could still open the bathroom door, and immediately opened the door and stumbled towards the other rooms in the cabin.
The other rooms were locked because the crew had a Xi of sleeping and were afraid of encountering piratesThat's why I lock the door before going to bed.
Harrison couldn't open the door, and by the time the crew inside woke up from the rising water level, the water level had already crossed more than half of the doorNow the door can't be opened from the inside.
Harrison began to swim towards the door of the cabin, as soon as he opened the doorYou can escape by yourself, but also to create a glimmer of life for boat tours.
Several members of the crew were already unconscious in the water, just as Harrison was about to swim to the hatchThe big waves completely overturned the hull of the ship, the ship also disappeared into the sea and began to sink.
Underwater, it would be a fool's dream for a person to open the hatch from the inside, not to mention that Harrison was now almost submerged in the water in the cabin, and it was becoming more and more difficult to breathe.
Deciding that he couldn't sit still, Harrison took a sharp breath and dived under the water in the cabin, swimming to the other rooms to see if he could find a room with a better sealMaybe there's oxygen there.
Harrison's vision was no longer visibleYou can only move forward with your hands, the breath I was holding was almost to the extreme.
Harrison's mood also became anxious, before this breath is exhausted, there is no way to live, and he will die in the sea like those crew members.
Suddenly, Harrison's hands touched a doorknob, it was a door, and Harrison decided to give it a go, and when that breath was about to run out, he used all his strength to swim up, fortunately,Above is a layer of air.
This is the same toilet that Harrison had flushed out before, and it was well sealed, and the seawater quickly filled the hull as it was overturned into the waterinhull,At this time, the air in the cabin is compressed into this roomAs a result, a layer of air appeared in the room, just enough to leave room for Harrison to show half of his upper body.
Harrison breathed greedily into the air, thinking about the good life for the last secondSoak in the icy waters nowHarrison's mood was desperate to the extreme.
Hannison called out the names of the ship's crew, hoping they would be able to hear the sound and swim here, but only if they were alive.
I don't know how long I shouted, but he was always the only one here, although it was May in early summer in Africa, but at a depth of thirty meters, the temperature here would cause Harrison's rapid hypothermiaIn that case, Harrison would also die at the bottom of the sea.
Harrison pinned his hopes on the people at seaDesperately banging on the hull to make a sound, hoping to be discovered, but missing out on the first rescue teams.
I don't know how long it took, Harrison's body began to peel, and with common sense, he knew that this was a precursor to hypothermiaThe space is running out of oxygenHarrison decided to give it a go again.
The ship is now upside down, so the engineer's office that started out at the bottom of the ship is now the highest room. There will also be more space thereYou might be able to spot food and escape opportunities.
After thinking calmly, Harrison simulated the route from the toilet to the engineer's office again in his mind to make sure that it was correctTake a sharp breath and re-enter the water.
Although this time it is still with both hands to open the way,Only this time the goal is clearerAs he was about to run out of breath, Harrison made it to the engineer's office.
There is indeed an air layer on the upper floor, and it is larger than the toilet spaceHarrison's teeth began to chatter, trembling unconsciously.
He rubbed his face vigorously with his handsThis gives you a little heat, but this heat is nothing compared to the endless cold water.
At this time, Harrison seemed to have touched a floating object under his feet, and after diving and dragging it up, he realized that it was a mattress, and Harrison collected other floating planks and put them under the mattress so that the mattress could float on the water, and then climbed from the water to the mattress himselfIn this way, you can reduce the loss of your own body temperature caused by the cold seawater.
But food and water Harrison just couldn't solve itAlthough there may be leftover food in other rooms on the ship, Harrison does not dare, as for drinking seawater, it is tantamount to looking for death, then Harrison can only rely on his own spirit to fight hunger.
muttering the names of his family members in his mouth, he kept telling himself in his heart that someone would come to save him, and time passed minute by minuteHarrison's consciousness was also close to collapse.
Just as he was lying on the mattress and trying to fend for himself,Suddenly, I heard a vibration in the hull of the shipIt seemed that someone had come, and Harrison's heart was stirred again.
But he didn't have the strength to shout anymoreWeakly raised his hands and slammed the cabin with the last bit of strength, to make a sound to attract rescuers, the diver heard the sound before Harrison came from.
Suddenly Harrison saw a light under the water, it was the light of a diving lamp, and Harrison threw himself into the water and swam towards the light, and the desire for life stimulated his strengthDesperately swim towards the light source.
But when he was about to swim over, he saw that the light was swimming in the opposite direction, and Harrison didn't choose to chase it, he had no strength, and this breath was almost gone.
He immediately turned around and returned to the house, and on the way back, Harrison ran into the diver who was startled by him, and the man realized that Harrison was a survivorImmediately follow Harrison to bring the air floor roomand then notify the others to come here.
Due to Harrison being soaked underwater for too long,Therefore, after going ashore, you cannot directly contact the air on the shore, the dissolved oxygen in the blood increases, rashly emerges from the water, bubbles will appear in the blood, and there will be life-threatening at that time, so the rescue team will choose to cover him with a diving bell.
In the hospital, Harrison spent two days in the decompression room before he could fully adjust to the air pressure outside, and after talking about all this, everyone gave Harrison a thumbs up, in their opinion, Harrison's survival was not just a matter of luckAnd his strong confidence that he can endure loneliness.
After being discharged from the hospital, Harrison did not choose to return to the ship, becoming a chef in a land-based restaurant, and the sea has become his own shadowEven at first, I would have nightmares every day, woke up from a dream in a cold sweat.
A few years later, Harrison decided to quit his job in a restaurant and go to a diving training center, the more a person was afraid of somethingIt's about choosing what to faceSo that there would be a chance to overcome his fears, and Harrison decided to learn Xi dive and fight underwater again.
As it turned out, Harrison did it, not only completing his studies, but doing it extraordinarilyThe diver who found Harrison personally handed out his credentialsWhen people face death, they must maintain their desire for life, so that there will be hope for life.