Three men whose fishing boat sank in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast were rescued after more than a day, despite being attacked by sharks that inflicted deep cuts on their hands and shredded one of their life jackets.
Rescue crews found them only after one of the fishermen managed to send a text message from a nearly drained cellphone, U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Keefe said.
Using boats, planes and helicopters, the Coast Guard spent hours searching an area of the Gulf larger than Rhode Island, but found no sign of the missing fishermen. When rescuers spotted the men Sunday afternoon off the coast of Empire, Louisiana, they saw two of them fighting off sharks circling in the water. All three were pulled from the water, with the two injured men taken by helicopter to a New Orleans hospital in stable condition.
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