Incredible story. That survivor is one tough SOB in my opinion, being alone, cold, underwater - pretty much the type of thing someone would come up with to torture you long term with, and he made it. The look on his face when we first see him I think says it all, and it took him such a short time to "get it together" and begin helping himself....again, very strong person, in addition to being very lucky. While watching I was thinking that if the rescue and search divers were breathing a mixed gas that was making their voice do the Bart Simpson, they must be pretty deep. Can you believe he was 100 ft underwater for 3 days? I think about how deep our olympic pool is nearby, and doing dive training in it, and looking up from only 12 feet and how impossibly far that looks...
Amazing quick thinking and work by the rescue team to get him back at all from that depth, much less breathing and talking. Googling that ship shows that it was no weekend fishing boat, that was a pretty big ship to go down, again, it's such an incredible story of survival, one of the most surprising I've read or heard of. Hearing the rescue co ordinator tell the survivor "listen mate, you mustn't panic, we're taking you to the bell"....haha, not panic, after 3 days in that hell, I think he's got this...just a good bit of humor in a crappy situation for them I'm sure, and he is just following procedures. What a great job again. Further reading showed that the diver making the video, a Belgian guy, volunteered to stay with the survivor Okene while others frantically put together gear to try and rescue him, obviously not expecting a living soul at that depth. This meant apparently a long time in the diving bell decompressing and even longer once up on deck in the chamber - pretty gutsy guy to volunteer to stay at a dangerous depth to help someone else out like that (I don't know much about the bends and decompression sickness, only having dove in a pool a few times like I said).
