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Decompression? >> yeah, when youre breathing compressed air for that long period of time, the nitrogen builds up in your blood stream. to be able to get him to put on that diving helmet and essentially, im assuming, this guy has never dove before in his life and to coach him and have him remain calm enough to put that helmet on, exit the boat, enter into a decompression chamber under water and essentially decompression chamber allows enough time for his blood, oxygen levels and blood stream to r...

>> reporter: he was the only one aboard that tug that survived. martha: its an incredible story. how did they bring him to the surface? >> one of the first things they did was use warm water to warm up his body temperature. the temperature of the ocean was just above freezing, another nourishment he had for three days was a single bottle of soda. he was given an oxygen mask and put in a decompression chamber. the diver who rescued him was shocked to find someone alive but he did his best to keep...

>> he wanted to go back to be a cook in a hotel. >> his ordeal is believed to be the longest anyone survived after being trapped under water. terry moran, abc news. >> just incredible. it wasnt as simple as saying, all right. lets get you up to the top. not by a long shot. they had to do it very slowly. >> thats right. he had been exposed to nitrogen so long, they had to put him in a decompression chamber for 60 hours. had they exposed him directly to open-air oxygen, he would have died immediat...

Bible, harrison had gone to the dark depths of the seas and lived to tell the tale. >> he wanted to going back to be a cook in a hotel. >> his ordeal is believed to be the longest anyone survived after being trapped under water. terry moran, abc news. >> just incredible. it wasnt as simple as saying, all right. lets get you up to the top. not by a long shot. they had to do it very slowly. >> thats right. he had been exposed to nitrogen so long, they had to put him in a decompression chamber for ...

International counterparts in math, reading, science. the new international standardized test scores indicate 15-year-olds in the u.s. were below the international average in math, about average in science and reading and dropped down in the ranking since the last test three years ago. the top scores from each subject came from shanghai. take a look at this incredible rescue that took place 20 miles off the nigerian coast around under water. three days after a tugboat capsized, divers were loo...

Seems like incongruous music, until you recognize it as the theme from "the great escape." harrison spent the next two days in a decompression chamber, returned to nigeria in good shape. you can bet neither man will ever forget the handshake that left both shaken. >> hes alive, hes a life. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. happening now. >> train terror, new details on what may have caused the deadly derailment. a survivors shares her story, the screeching metal and injuries all around ...

>> okay. what happens when he came home to visit? how did the kids react to him, how did you react to him? you talked a little about being angry and resentful during those visits. >> there was a bit of a fight for dads attention. he would come and the kids would hang on him and i would hang on him. my needs were raw. i was very emotional and very needy and very angry at the same time because all these emotions would come up because we hadnt seen each other for a while and also all the worry and ...