A distressed fisherman was found clinging to a cooler lid by US Army Mariners who rescued the man who had spent hours at sea after his boat had capsized miles from land
A fisherman was saved by a passing navy ship after being found clinging to a plastic cooler lid in the middle of the ocean.
The fisherman was spotted ten miles out to sea by a crew member standing on the bridge of a passing ship who noticed the sea wasn’t looking as calm as usual.
“I noticed what looked like someone waving their arms, which is the signal for distress in the water,” watercraft engineer Sergeant Seth Leonard told local news.
“I grabbed my binoculars to see if my eyes were playing tricks on me and that’s when I saw someone about 1.5 miles directly in front of us.”