

"I took my two thumbs and jabbed him in the eyes, and he took off," Luan Nguyen said.Įven as the two men were pulled from the water, they were being circled and harassed by four blacktip sharks measuring about 1.2 to 1.8 meters (4 to 6 feet) long, said Andrew Stone, a seaman in the Coast Guard boat crew that rescued the exhausted pair. these injuries on my hand," he told the broadcaster, which identified the third boater as Son Nguyen. Saturday - the sharks showed up Sunday morning, Luan Nguyen said. The three men had been in the water since about 10 a.m. The swimmer, Phong Le, managed to find a cellphone signal, and sent a Google map of his location just before his battery died, he told ABC News on Tuesday. Two anglers whose boat sank over the weekend in the Gulf of Mexico clung to an improvised float and fought off sharks while the third swam what felt like miles to search for help.
