The swimmer, Phong Le, managed to find a phone signal and sent a Google map of his location just before his battery died, he told ABC News
"We made a distress call on the VHF radio to the Coast Guard and let them know that we'd taken on water," Mr Le told ABC."And not even seconds after that, the boat was nearly halfway in the water."Advertisement
Mr Le said he swam off for help on Sunday and after swimming for what felt like miles, he found a signal on his phone and texted his Google map location to a friend.A fisherman's wife reported them missing around 10pm on Saturday, said Lieutenant Commander Kevin Keefe, rescue coordinator for Sector New Orleans.One of the men's life jackets was torn in a shark attack.
The woman did not know the launch point and he said it took around 3.5 hours to find their vehicle in Venice, near Louisiana's southeastern tip, so crews would know the best areas to search when dawn broke. Coast Guard boats, planes and a helicopter had spent fruitless hours searching an area larger than Rhode Island before the Google Maps screenshot arrived.Image:The Coast Guard said the two men were found around 25 miles off Empire, a small community located along the last narrow strip of the Mississippi Delta, southeast of New Orleans.
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