‘Miracle’ frogman stays alive inside deepwater air pocket, first words to rescuers are ‘Do you have a cigarette?’
A Chinese diver miraculously survived five days and nights trapped in an underwater cave, leaving netizens in disbelief and shock.
The incident unfolded on July 19, when Wang, a diving enthusiast in his 40s from Furong Town in Xiangxi, Hunan province, central China, went missing just five minutes into a river dive with a friend.
The river runs several dozen metres deep, with the entrance to an intricate cave system located around nine metres below the surface.
Police immediately launched a search operation and sought help from the Xiangxi Shuguang Rescue Team and special police forces from the city of Baise in the Guangxi autonomous region of southern China.
