Last May, Harrison Okene, the Nigerian cook aboard the tug Jacson-4, was rescued from 30 meters below the Atlantic after spending almost three days in an air pocket aboard the ship which had overturned and capsized.  His 11 fellow crew mates perished.

I won’t repeat all the details here, but you can read the whole story here in the Telegraph and you can watch a few minutes of the dramatic rescue video below.

According to reports, Mr. Okene survived in the air pocket with only a bottle of Coke, his wits, and by praying some Psalms that his wife had texted him the night before the tug sank.  Verses from Psalms 54 through 92.

I don’t know exactly which verses Mr. Okene read, or rather prayed, but maybe one of them was:

Save me, O God!
For the waters have come up to my neck.
I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.  Psalm 69:1-2 (Vg. 68)

As you might suspect, many other news outlets, including the Huffington Post and the BBC, also reported on this story, but made no mention of the Psalms.  No surprise there.

Now, here’s the rescue: