🇳🇬 In 2013, 29-year-old Harrison Okene was on a boat off the coast of Nigeria when a wave flipped the vessel in the dark.
The boat sank and came to rest upside down on the ocean floor, about 100 feet down. Of the 12 men on board, Harrison was the only one left alive.
He found a small air pocket in a flooded cabin and clung there in freezing water, wearing only his underwear.
Relatives were already being told the crew was dead. Then, three days later, salvage divers entered the wreck expecting bodies when one of the divers suddenly felt a hand grab his.
It was Harrison. He’d been at the bottom of the sea for more than 60 hours.
After being rescued, he spent days in a decompression chamber as surfacing immediately would have killed him.
Years later, Harrison overcame his trauma and trained to become a professional commercial diver. The man who handed him his graduation diploma? Nic van Heerden - the diver who saved his life.