Fishermen

The boat of two Mexican fishermen sank within minutes, leaving them drifting in the Pacific Ocean without food or water. They improvised a raft from a cooler and empty fuel tanks and were located after signaling a rescue plane by waving a piece of cloth. After more than 100 hours of survival, one of them declared he is retiring from fishing.

Two Mexican fishermen were found alive on Wednesday in the middle of the Pacific Ocean after surviving for five days inside a cooler without food or water. Daniel Guerrero Martinez and Jose Luis Portales Villegas were rescued in a state of severe dehydration about 240 kilometers off the coast of Chiapas, Mexico.