On 26th May 2013, Nigerian sailor Harrison Okene was the twenty-nine-year-old cook on board the Jascon-4 tugboat. The tug had been helping stabilise an oil tanker, twenty miles off the coast. The ship had been fighting heavy swells when it capsized and sank thirty metres to the sea floor just off the coast.
The eleven other members of the crew were killed in this freak accident, but Harrison survived in the smallest of air pockets with only a can of Coke for company.
His story became one of the greatest feats of survival known.
