TRAPPED For 60 Hours at The Ocean Bottom + Other Facts You Won't Believe in Just 20 Minutes

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00:00 We've heard stories about people surviving in the desert, Amazon forest, and uninhabited

00:06 islands for weeks.

00:08 Such stories show how tough and resilient people can be.

00:11 But among these many cases, there is one that can really amaze you.

00:16 It's the story about a guy who spent three days inside a sunken ship at the bottom of

00:20 the Atlantic Ocean.

00:21 He didn't have oxygen tanks, electricity, communications, or food.

00:27 But he survived.

00:29 So it all happened in 2013 on a tugboat that was moving through the Atlantic waters along

00:35 the coast of Nigeria.

00:37 That day, early in the morning, there was a small storm.

00:40 The tug was pulling a vessel with oil tanks.

00:43 Then, all of a sudden, a huge wave formed.

00:47 It crashed into the ship and broke the cable.

00:50 At 4.30am, the tugboat turned upside down.

00:54 Its entire deck was underwater, and the ship's hull stuck out from the surface.

00:59 The boat began to sink slowly.

01:01 The crew of 12 people were trapped, as they all were in their locked rooms.

01:06 They had closed the doors in their cabins as a precaution, since there were many pirates

01:11 in those waters.

01:12 Because of the locked rooms, they couldn't get out.

01:15 But one of them, Cook Harrison Okina, was in the bathroom during this time.

01:20 The bathroom turned over.

01:23 Harrison fell on the ceiling.

01:25 All the clothes and toilet shelves fell on his head.

01:28 He was stunned and didn't understand what was happening.

01:31 When he heard the screams of the other crew members, he realized that the ship was sinking.

01:37 Harrison struggled to his feet.

01:39 Holding on to the walls, he slowly went out of the cabin.

01:43 The water level rose above his head.

01:46 Harrison took a deep breath.

01:48 He intuitively, driven by fear, reached the engineering room.

01:52 There was a small pocket with air.

01:54 This space wasn't fully flooded, since the water didn't get there, and the air hadn't

01:59 come out.

02:01 Harrison realized that this was the safest place for him at that moment.

02:04 He had no fresh water and no food.

02:07 He was in a cold, damp room.

02:10 The floor was flooded, and Harrison's feet began to freeze.

02:13 There was almost no chance of survival.

02:16 The man found a soda bottle inside the room and a life jacket with two flashlights attached

02:21 to it.

02:22 By this time, the ship had descended to the bottom of the ocean at a depth of 100 feet.

02:28 This is about the height of a 10-story building.

02:31 The ship's hull was squeezed and made a grinding noise due to the pressure of the water.

02:37 Then, Harrison heard a strange movement outside the door.

02:40 It was sharks and other fish that were investigating the deck.

02:44 At this point, Harrison began to lose hope.

02:48 Lack of food supplies and pressure weren't the main problems.

02:52 The air pocket was small, which meant there was little oxygen.

02:56 Every 24 hours, an average person consumes about 350 cubic feet of air, which means Harrison

03:02 had less than one day left to breathe.

03:05 But despite this, he lived in such conditions for about 60 hours.

03:10 This happened thanks to the water.

03:12 The pressure around the ship was so intense that it compressed the air by about four times.

03:19 Another problem was the cook's breathing.

03:21 When we inhale, we absorb oxygen.

03:24 When we exhale, we release carbon dioxide.

03:27 This substance is dangerous to your health if its concentration in the air is 5%.

03:33 Harrison slowly filled the room with carbon dioxide, and he couldn't get out.

03:37 With each hour, it became harder to breathe, but here again, he was lucky.

03:44 Water absorbs carbon dioxide, and Harrison moved and splashed it in different directions.

03:49 Thus, unknowingly, he increased the water area and kept the carbon dioxide level below

03:55 critical.

03:57 But even here, his dangers were not over.

04:00 Hypothermia may occur in a dark, cold room.

04:03 It's a condition when your body temperature drops below 95 degrees Fahrenheit.

04:08 You get cold, and your perception of the world gets distorted.

04:12 You don't understand where you are and what's going on.

04:15 You may lose your memory and even experience terminal burrowing.

04:19 This weird behavior occurs during hypothermia when a person tries to find a small shelter,

04:25 even if they're in a closed room.

04:27 They can even start digging the cold floor with their bare hands.

04:31 At the same time, a person quickly freezes and loses consciousness within two hours.

04:36 Harrison's room was filled from below with icy water.

04:40 He wouldn't have survived in such conditions if he had stayed on the floor for several

04:44 hours.

04:45 But he managed to build a small platform with a mattress.

04:49 This kept him slightly above the water level.

04:52 With each passing hour, fear and despair more and more bound the survivor's mind.

04:58 He couldn't get out for many reasons.

05:00 One of them was that only a little sunlight passes to such a depth, and Harrison couldn't

05:05 see it.

05:06 The soda bottle was almost empty, and the flashlight stopped working.

05:11 The man found himself in pitch darkness.

05:14 But his salvation was close.

05:16 While rescuers were searching for survivors nearby, he was thinking about his family and

05:21 life.

05:22 Harrison noticed rays of light through a hole in the wreckage.

05:26 Divers were examining the seabed.

05:27 It was the only chance to survive.

05:30 Harrison came out of the air pocket and swam towards the rescuers.

05:35 He was making his way through the darkness.

05:37 The ray of light coming from the diver's flashlight disappeared.

05:41 Harrison tried blindly to find the diver, but they were at the other end of the deck.

05:46 His oxygen was running out, so Harrison decided to return.

05:50 There was almost no air left in his lungs.

05:52 He began to suffocate, but still got to the rescue room.

05:57 The main thing was not to despair.

06:00 It was his only chance for salvation.

06:03 After catching his breath and replenishing the oxygen supply in his lungs, Harrison made

06:08 a second attempt.

06:09 He got out of the room and noticed the diver.

06:12 He swam towards them with all of his might.

06:15 The lifeguard didn't see Harrison, so the cook knocked on his neck from behind and grabbed

06:20 his hand tightly.

06:22 The diver was initially scared, but he realized a living person was in front of him.

06:28 Harrison swam to his room and led the lifeguard as his oxygen ran out.

06:33 You can easily find a recording from the diver's camera on the internet, where the frightened

06:37 Harrison was in his rescue room during a meeting with the diver.

06:41 The rescuers gave him an oxygen mask.

06:43 They didn't believe there was a living person in front of them.

06:47 Harrison couldn't immediately get to the surface because of the pressure.

06:51 He spent about 60 hours on the seabed, so he needed to change the pressure level slowly

06:56 to prevent damage to his health.

06:58 Therefore, the divers put him in a decompression chamber to gradually reduce the external pressure.

07:04 Then, when Harrison got out, he saw the stars.

07:09 The cook thought that he had been at the bottom of the ocean all day, so he was surprised

07:14 when he found out that he had been underwater for 60 hours.

07:17 Also, he thought that all the crew members had forgotten about him and left the ship

07:22 at the beginning.

07:24 Many years have passed since then, but Harrison still has nightmares about his air room.

07:29 Sometimes he wakes up in the middle of the night and tells his wife that the bed is sinking

07:34 and they're now at sea.

07:36 Now let's talk about toothpick fashion.

07:38 Oh yes, it was a thing too.

07:41 Even during the medieval period when life was all castles and chivalry, folks flaunted

07:46 their upper class status with gold or silver toothpicks elegantly tucked away in snazzy

07:51 cases.

07:52 Americans really knew how to stand out from the toothpick-wielding masses.

07:57 One particular fancy toothpick dating from the 16th century is displayed at the British

08:00 Museum.

08:01 It's made with gold and even encrusted with pearls.

08:05 The trend continued well into the 19th century, when the Duchess of Parma even had a whole

08:09 dozen of valuable toothpicks as part of her dowry.

08:13 At one point in history, some crafty ladies in Portugal came up with a toothpick innovation.

08:19 Instead of using them to clean teeth, these brilliant women made disposable toothpicks

08:23 specifically for picking up sticky sweets.

08:26 Bye bye, messy fingers.

08:29 And as luck would have it, toothpick production in Portugal boomed.

08:33 Those toothpicks were a hit, finding their way across Europe and the Americas.

08:38 Marilyn loved to read a lot.

08:40 Her library included over 400 books on art, philosophy, psychology, politics, poetry,

08:47 theology, and history.

08:50 She once mentioned in an interview that she liked going to bookstores when she was bored.

08:54 She would open a book at random and buy it if the paragraph she read got her interested.

08:59 Out of thousands of photos ever taken of her, she preferred the ones where she was reading.

09:04 Monroe also wrote poetry herself.

09:07 The actress was very witty, with a unique sense of humor.

09:11 Once a journalist asked her if she thought Arthur Miller had married her because he needed

09:15 a muse.

09:16 She agreed to answer only if her reply would be printed without edits.

09:21 Once the journalist agreed, all she said was, "No comment."

09:26 Our Sun is an average-sized star, and still, it could fit 1,300,000 Earths.

09:33 The star is also 333,000 times as heavy as our planet.

09:38 NASA has translated radio waves created by planets' atmospheres into audible sounds.

09:44 That's how astronomers found out that Neptune sounds like ocean waves, Jupiter like being

09:50 underwater, and Saturn's voice resembles background music to a horror movie.

09:56 Here on Earth, it's bebop jazz.

09:58 Now I made that up.

10:01 The Sun's surface is scorching hot, but a bolt of lightning is five times hotter.

10:07 Earth gets struck by 100 lightning bolts every second, which results in 8 million lightning

10:13 strikes a day and around 3 billion a year.

10:17 Shocking.

10:18 Can you guess how many theories of the Titanic's sinking exist?

10:22 Right, loads, including a theory of my own, which I'm going to share with you today.

10:27 And then you can decide which one seems most likely to you.

10:31 One Piece Theory The very first version of the events was the

10:36 One Piece Theory.

10:38 It's very simple and basically claims that the sinking happened without any breakups.

10:43 2.15am, the ship collides with an iceberg.

10:47 2.18am, the lights go out.

10:50 The ship reaches an angle of 45 degrees and then quickly begins its final plunge into

10:55 the ocean depths.

10:57 2.20am, only about three minutes later, the RMS Titanic disappears under the surface of

11:03 the ocean for good.

11:05 The liner doesn't break.

11:07 It just goes down as a whole piece.

11:10 Venus most likely used to be covered with oceans, from 30 to 1,000 feet deep.

11:15 Also, some water was locked in the soil of the planet.

11:19 On top of that, Venus had stable temperatures of 68 to 122 degrees Fahrenheit, which, you

11:25 have to admit, was quite pleasant and not that different from the temperatures on Earth

11:29 nowadays.

11:30 So, what I'm getting at is that for 3 billion years, right until something irrevocable happened,

11:36 700 million years ago, Venus could've been habitable.

11:40 But now it's not.

11:42 The Moon is the second brightest object in our sky.

11:45 At the same time, among other astronomical bodies, it's one of the dimmest and least

11:50 reflective.

11:51 Our natural satellite only seems bright because it's so close to Earth.

11:55 For comparison, our planet looks much brighter when you look at it from space.

12:00 It's because clouds, ice, and snow reflect way more light than most types of rock.

12:05 Triton, Neptune's moon, has all its surface covered with several layers of ice.

12:11 If this satellite replaced our current moon, the night sky would get 7 times brighter.

12:18 Neutron stars are some of the smallest, yet most massive objects in space.

12:22 They're usually about 12 miles in diameter, but are several times heavier than the Sun.

12:27 Oh, and they also spin about 600 times per second, far faster than your average figure

12:33 of 8.

12:36 Saturn is the least dense planet in the Solar System.

12:39 It has 1/8 the average Earth's density.

12:42 And still, because of its large volume, the planet is 95 times more massive than Earth.

12:48 A transient lunar phenomenon is one of the most enigmatic things happening on the Moon.

12:53 It's a short-lived light, color, or some other change on the satellite's surface.

12:58 Most commonly, it's random flashes of light.

13:02 Astronomers have been observing this phenomenon since the 1950s.

13:05 They've noticed that the flashes occur randomly.

13:09 Sometimes they can happen several times a week.

13:11 After that, they disappear for several months.

13:14 Some of them don't last longer than a couple of minutes, but there have been those that

13:18 continued for hours.

13:20 The year was 1969, one day before Apollo 11 landed on the Moon.

13:26 One of the mission participants noticed that one part of the lunar surface was more illuminated

13:30 than the surrounding landscape.

13:32 It looked as if that area had a kind of fluorescence to it.

13:36 Unfortunately, it's still unclear if this phenomenon was connected with the mysterious

13:41 lunar flashes.

13:43 Trash isn't just a problem in Earth's oceans, cities, and forests.

13:46 There is a thing called space junk, which is any human-made object that's been left

13:51 in space and now serves no purpose.

13:54 There's also natural debris from meteoroids and other cosmic objects.

13:58 There are currently over 500,000 pieces of space debris orbiting the Earth at speeds

14:03 high enough to cause significant damage if they were to collide with a spacecraft or

14:08 satellite.

14:09 NASA does its best to track every single object to ensure that missions outside Earth can

14:14 reach their destination safely.

14:16 Our Sun is insanely massive.

14:19 Want some proof?

14:21 99.86% of all the mass in the Solar System is the mass of the Sun.

14:26 In particular, the hydrogen and helium it's made of.

14:29 The remaining 0.14% is mostly the mass of the Solar System's 8 planets.

14:36 The Sun's temperature is hotter than the surface of a star.

14:39 The surface temperature reaches 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, but the upper atmosphere heats

14:44 up to millions of degrees.

14:46 If someone could dig a tunnel straight into the center of the planet and out the opposite

14:50 side, and you were adventurous enough to jump into it, it would take you 42 minutes to

14:56 fall to the other side.

14:58 You'd speed up as you fell, reaching maximum speed by the time you reached Earth's core.

15:04 After the halfway point, you would then fall upwards, getting slower and slower.

15:09 By the time you reached the opposite surface, your speed would be back to zero.

15:13 Unless you managed to climb out of the hole, you'd immediately start falling again, back

15:18 down or up to the other side of the planet.

15:21 This trip would go on forever, all thanks to the weird effects of gravity.

15:25 Hey, might be a fun way to spend an afternoon!

15:30 There might be more metals, for example, titanium or iron, in lunar craters than astronomers

15:36 used to think.

15:37 The main problem with this finding?

15:39 It contradicts the main theory about how the Moon was formed.

15:43 That theory says that Earth's natural satellite was spun off from our planet after a collision

15:48 with a massive space object.

15:50 But then, why does Earth's metal-poor crust have much less iron oxide than the Moon's?

15:56 It might mean the Moon was formed from the material lying much deeper inside our planet.

16:02 Or these metals could've appeared when the molten lunar surface was slowly cooling down.

16:07 Or maybe, as they've been saying for centuries, it's made of green cheese.

16:13 Earth could've been purple before it turned blue and green.

16:16 One scientist has a theory that a substance existed in ancient microbes before chlorophyll

16:21 – that thing that makes plants green – evolved on Earth.

16:25 This substance reflected sunlight in red and violet colors, which combined to make purple.

16:30 If true, the young Earth may have been teeming with strange purple-colored critters before

16:35 all the green stuff appeared.

16:38 The highest mountain in the Solar System is Olympus Mons on Mars.

16:42 It's three times as high as Mount Everest, the Earth's highest mountain above sea level.

16:47 If you were standing on top of Olympus Mons, you wouldn't understand you were standing

16:51 on a mountain.

16:53 Its slopes would be hidden by the planet's curvature.

16:58 Astronomers have found a massive reservoir of water in space – the largest ever detected.

17:03 Too bad it's also the farthest – 12 billion light-years away from us.

17:07 The water vapor cloud holds 140 trillion times as much water as all the Earth's oceans

17:13 combined.

17:14 What are we supposed to do with that information?

17:17 Venus spins at its own unhurried pace.

17:20 A full rotation takes 243 Earth days, and it takes the planet a bit less than 225 Earth

17:26 days to go all the way around the Sun.

17:29 It means a day on Venus is longer than a year.

17:32 There's very little seismic activity going on inside the Moon.

17:37 Yet many moonquakes, caused by our planet's gravitational pull, sometimes happen several

17:42 miles below the surface.

17:44 After that, tiny cracks and fissures appear in the satellite's surface, and gases escape

17:49 through them.

17:50 Hey, they sometimes escape from me too!

17:54 Mars is the last of the inner planets, which are also called terrestrial since they're

17:59 made up of rocks and metals.

18:01 The red planet has a core made mostly of iron, nickel, and sulfur.

18:05 It's between 900 and 1200 miles across.

18:08 The core doesn't move.

18:10 That's why Mars lacks a planet-wide magnetic field.

18:13 The weak magnetic field it has is just 1/100% of the Earth's.

18:20 When the planets in the Solar System were just starting to form, Earth didn't have

18:24 a moon for the longest time.

18:26 It took 100 million years for our natural satellite to appear.

18:31 There are several theories as to how the Moon came into existence, but the prevailing one

18:35 is the fission theory.

18:39 Somebody went fishing and caught the Moon?

18:42 Actually no.

18:43 The fission theory proposes that the Moon was formed when an object collided with Earth,

18:48 sending particles flying about.

18:50 Gravity pulled the particles together, and the Moon was created.

18:54 It eventually settled down on the Earth's ecliptic plane, which is the path that the

18:58 Moon orbits.

18:59 So, looks like the green cheese is off the table now.

19:04 The largest single living thing on Earth turns out to be a mushroom in Oregon.

19:08 This enormous honey mushroom lives in Malheur National Forest and covers an area of 3.7

19:14 square miles.

19:15 It could be as much as 8,500 years old.

19:19 You could be forgiven for missing it, though, since most of it's hidden underground.

19:25 When the roots of individual honey mushrooms meet, they can fuse together to become a single

19:30 fungus, which explains how this one got so big.

19:33 If you could gather all that mushroomy stuff into one big ball, it could weigh as much

19:38 as 35,000 tons.

19:40 That's about as heavy as 200 grey whales.

19:43 Hey, that's a whale of a mushroom!

19:47 The largest asteroid in the Solar System is called Vesta, and it's so big that it's

19:52 sometimes even called a dwarf planet.

19:55 A trip to the nearest star, apart from the Sun, would take you 5 million years on a commercial

20:00 airplane.

20:01 That's what I call a long-haul flight.

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