Fishermen Luan Nguyen and Phong Le shared gripping hugs in a heartwarming, surprise reunion with three Coast Guard members who helped bring them and one other fisherman to safety after their boat capsized off the coast of Louisiana.
"I just remember him picking me up, pulling me out the water. It was like, 'Wow, made it,'" Nguyen said.
Le said they initially tried to swim to the oil rig in the hope of making a distress call on Le's cellphone, but they ended up floating in the water for hours in the darkness overnight. A Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans aircrew member holds up a torn life jacket from a recent rescue off the coast of Empire, Louisiana, Oct. 9, 2022. One of the boater's life jackets was torn due to a shark attack."The shark hit the life vest, and I tried to push him off," Nguyen said."He wouldn't go away so I jabbed him in his eyes. ... Put my thumbs in his eyes, and he took off. I got a couple scars, but you know...""And it wasn't small," Le said.
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