Two fishermen have been rescued after being adrift in the Pacific clinging to a cool box for five days without food or water.
Daniel Guerrero Martinez, 53, and Jose Luis Portela Villegas, 32, were brought to safety by Mexican Navy personnel on August 19 in waters off the municipality of Tonala, Chiapas, after disappearing on a fishing trip days earlier.
The men, who embarked on the fishing trip from a small town close to Guatemala, ran into trouble after their boat – the Camaronera – sank and they became stranded in the Pacific waters.
The pair, whose last radio contact was recorded on
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