Dramatic Rescue of Man Who Survived Three Days Underwater Documented on Video >>Hollywood

While Harrison Okene was pulled from his ship's wreckage earlier this summer, footage of the dramatic rescue has recently been released.

South African divers probing the tugboat's capsized wreckage only expected to pull bodies out of the water. When one of them saw Okene's hand emerge from the murky water inside the ship, the diver cried out "He's alive! He's alive!" and they realized this was no ordinary expedition.

Man Survives 3 Days Underwater Alone Before Dramatic Rescue

Harrison Okene, the ship's cook, had been trapped inside a 4-foot pocket of air for over 60 hours in the freezing water wearing only his underwear. He survived on Coca-Cola.

Okene was the only one of the ship's 12 crew members to survive when the tugboat capsized on May 26 as a result of heavy Atlantic storm swells. He had been in a bathroom when the ship began to sink and, after forcing the door open, was swept down a hallway and into another room where he spent the next 2.5 days breathing from a small air bubble.

Divers gave him an oxygen mask and pull