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SAN JOSE - TWO Caribbean fishermen whose boat ran out of fuel have been rescued after surviving 44 days lost at sea on a diet of raw fish and rainwater, reports said on Thursday.
The pair, from the islands of San Vincent and the Grenadines, were rescued on Tuesday by the crew of a Costa Rican fishing vessel who found them nearly lifeless in their boat near an island off Costa Rica's Atlantic coast, the newspaper La Nacion said.
Three companions who had been with them had jumped in the water and started swimming to what they thought was an island after nearly a month afloat.
'My friend and I decided to wait for rescue. We don't know if they survived,' one of the rescued men, Mr Anthony Nantan, 32, told the newspaper.
'We spent a lot of time without anything to eat. We survived on raw fish and rainwater,' he added.
He and his colleague, Keron Walters, 22, were being treated in a hospital in the Costa Rican town of Limon for dehydration.
Mr Carlos Perez, a member of the crew that saved them, said: 'They were so weak they could barely lift themselves up.' He said that when his vessel came upon the hapless two, they were lying in their boat covered with a bag.
'As we went up to them, one of them managed to get to his feet and throw himself at my colleague. He was crying from happiness. The other had a Bible in his hand,' he said.
'We couldn't understand anything they said. We gave them something to eat and a lot of water.' Their 5.5-metre boat had drifted 2,300 kilometres before being picked up, La Nacion said. -- AFP
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