After their boat went down off the coast Louisiana, three men were left stranded at sea and were left stranded for 24 hours.
“As we were pulling them out of the water, there were sharks harassing them and they had told us they had been fighting off sharks for a while,” Seaman Andrew Stone said.
The fishing trip went awry when the men’s boat sank 25 miles from shore.
While they struggled to stay alive, the men captured video of their lifeboat made from two coolers. They clung on for 28 hours.
Phong Le was left with just 2% of his cell phone battery remaining, and he managed to send a GPS photo of his location to a friend. Le stated that his phone worked despite being submerged for over twenty hours.
Two hours later, Coast Guard officers found them and brought two of them aboard the rescue ship. The Coast Guard then airlifted the third man into the helicopter. All three men were treated inside the helicopter for hypothermia.
Luan Nguyen suffered lacerations from shark bites that left him with scratches and lacerations on his hands. This photo shows the damage done by a shark to a life vest.
It is not surprising that the men claim it will take them a long time to go out at sea again.