Couldn’t this guy have swum underwater after begin trapped in the water to the outside of the boat and then rose 100 feet? That sounds like a lot of depth but it can be down within 30 seconds.
“Couldn’t this guy have swum underwater after begin trapped in the water to the outside of the boat and then rose 100 feet? That sounds like a lot of depth but it can be down within 30 seconds.”
The hard part would be negotiating a water-filled boat upside down in the dark before you ran out of air.
You’re assuming he knows how to swim...
The compressed air would have expanded in his lungs as he was surfacing. We would then explode like a balloon. Not a good way to go. Mr. Okene deserves a lot of credit for focusing on God and prayer as opposed to ill-advised schemes.
At 100 ft, the pressure would have been approximately 4 times atmospheric pressure. Surfacing that quickly would have caused air to literally boil out of his blood.
The bends would have killed him in a quick ascent. After rescue, he spent 60 hours in a decompression chamber. At 100 ft., he’s at 43 psig compared to 0 psig at the surface. A lot of nitrogen is dissolved into his blood at that pressure.
When the lights go out on a ship you can slap yourself and not know who hit you.
Complete darkness.
Trying to find your way around in that kind of darkness even when upright on the surface is tough.