Well the article mentions there is a 76% death rate for these known stowaways so it isn't like he's the only one who survived. My extremely uninformed hypothes

Well the article mentions there is a 76% death rate for these known stowaways so it isn't like he's the only one who survived. My extremely uninformed hypothesis is the mammalian diving reflex kicks in since the article mentioned it was cold????? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammalian_diving_reflex http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammalian_diving_reflex