Two shipwrecked fishermen in Mexico have been rescued after spending five days adrift in a cool storage box on the Pacific Ocean, the Mexican Navy said on X on Thursday.
The men were found during a search and rescue operation around 240 kilometres off the coast of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.
A fishing cooperative had alerted authorities after losing contact with the two fishermen, aged 53 and 32. The pair had set out on a fishing boat called Camaronera - meaning "shrimp boat" - before all trace of them was lost.
"A wave hit the boat," said José Luis Portelas, the younger of the two fishermen, in a video recorded after the rescue.
Everything had happened in the middle of the night at 3 am (0900 GMT), in less than five minutes, he said. After the shipwreck, they had no time to take anything with them - no drinking water, no food and no radio. "The only thing we could do was empty the cool storage box and climb in," he said.
"I thought I would never see my family again," said Daniel Guerrero, the other fisherman. It had been hard, he said. They had no means to catch fish and no water. "It didn't rain. The sun almost killed us."
Navy ships and aircraft took part in the search operation. The fishermen were spotted in the blue cool storage box, brought to safety and given a medical examination. They were then flown by helicopter to the port of Puerto Chiapas, the navy said, where videos showed them being received by their relatives in tears.