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Decompression? >> yeah, when you're 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, i'm 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 return to normal so he can go to the surface is just incredible story all around. >> and for him to...

>> reporter: he was the only one aboard that tug that survived. martha: it's 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 okene calm. that rescue took place last may but it has only now become widely reported after the d...

>> 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 wasn't as simple as saying, all right. let's get you up to the top. not by a long shot. they had to do it very slowly. >> that's 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 immediately. cookie day. in honor of th e occasion we check out a gourmet cookie store and check out th...

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 wasn't as simple as saying, all right. let's get you up to the top. not by a long shot. they had to do it very slowly. >> that's 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 immediately. cook...

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 looking for bodies and a hand reached up to get them. the boat's cook was alive. he survived in a four-...