Being trapped inside a sinking ship is every sailor’s worst fear. After all, you might be rescued floating on the surface after a shipwreck, but being locked inside a cabin slowly filling with seawater and knowing death by drowning is imminent must be truly horrifying.
Such was the fate of the crew of the Jascon-4, a tugboat working off the coast of Nigeria in 2013. They were towing an oil tanker when disaster struck as a sudden swell or rogue wave capsized the vessel and sent it plummeting to the ocean floor.
