Three boaters clung to a makeshift raft of ice chests and fended off shark attacks and jellyfish stings in the waters near Empire, Louisiana, until they were rescued 28 hours later, all thanks to a miraculous text message.
Three boaters clung to a makeshift raft of ice chests and fended off shark attacks and jellyfish stings in the waters near Empire, Louisiana, until they were The three longtime friends set out on Oct. 8 to fish red snapper like they had many times before. But rough seas soon began disturbing their fishing boat, lapping water inside the vessel.
"Good thing there was full moon out because we had light," Luan Nguyen told NBC. "We couldn't barely see anything, so we just drifted at night.""The shark hit the life vest and I tried to push him off. He wouldn't go away, so I jabbed him in his eyes," Nguyen told NBC. "I put my thumbs in his eyes and he took off. I got a little couple scars, but you know.
"I opened up my phone and that's when all of a sudden, all of the text messages came in," Le said. "The whole time I didn't have no signal but out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, I had a signal." After 15 to 20 minutes of searching the waters, a pilot from a Coast Guard airplane, cruising at an altitude of 1,000 feet, spotted one of the men waving from the water, Caraway said.
The Coast Guard crews reunited the men pulled from the water with Le, who was already on the helicopter, he said.Members of the Coast Guard train for these kinds of events, but this rescue was anything but ordinary, Caraway said.
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