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2 boaters rescued after 7 days spent in life raft

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    Survivors faced rough seas and no food

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If it was sudden and violent it was a fight for your life.

-- Bryant and Gerald Cheshire were dehydrated and weak and still very much running on adrenaline but happy to be on dry land.

Odds and lord thank you very much.

They were Mexico bound from -- -- island and were rescued about ninety miles off the coast of carbon springs delivering a hard -- Until -- got clobbered by getting high waves.

Forcing them into their life raft or seven grueling days -- like a beach ball -- -- -- It was make it Louis probably on a mile they were zipped up -- -- life raft just like this one we found a solution one maritime and Tampa.

And bounced around in the churning Gulf of Mexico but there's one little hole that fell out of doubt about -- days.

My myself nothing terrible.

Looking around alone and I.

What it.

Now I wasn't.

So during -- it would have been it would open up a small -- -- like this and you're outside and see what was going well.

So you can imagine.

That was cute guys stuck in eight person -- we have five people here in the sixth person -- to look how close we are.

Can you imagine what those -- you guys went through for seven days at sea in a vehicle like this.

We laid flat we spread out the -- -- Where book or whatever now in a way it would it would it would top would break and it it would try to -- man like but.

They did not have an emergency position indicating radio beacon or eat her on them and it basically lets the Coast Guard know exactly where you -- to within a hundred yards but.

Haven't you ever.

To have written off.

Are you regretting -- maybe it will never happen again.

Through it all they never lost hope.

Alison -- new policy.

You forever to -- fortune favors the bold.

Maybe through step to -- Antonio fox thirteen news.

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