Air pockets might provide some chance of rescuing survivors from within vessel, ... “From the images that I’ve seen, there’s clearly some areas of the hull that are above the water, ...

But Okene didn’t asphyxiate despite being trapped in a small, sealed space for 60 hours. How was this possible? The water encapsulating his air bubble may have played a small role in his survival.

Since you can see water, it is hard to conceive of such a thing as a water pocket. One analogy that is helpful to some people is picturing the sky as one large bowl of jelly.

Authorities say an air pocket in a man's car kept him alive for hours while his vehicle was upside down and underwater in a Wisconsin river. ... Air pocket saves driver trapped under water.