Coast Guard rescues boaters found ‘fending off sharks’

The Coast Guard on Sunday rescued three boaters from the water off Louisiana’s coast, and two of them were “fending off sharks” when rescuers arrived.

The Coast Guard rescued three boaters from the water off Louisiana on Sunday, two of whom were “fending off sharks” when rescuers arrived, officials said.

The trio were on a fishing trip, but their 24-foot boat sank around 10 a.m. Saturday and a family member reported them overdue that evening, the Coast Guard said in a statement Monday.

When crews aboard a helicopter and a 45-foot Coast Guard boat found them in the water around 2 p.m. Sunday, the boat crew “witnessed two of the boaters fending off sharks," along with injuries to both boaters' hands, the Coast Guard said.

A Coast Guard helicopter rescues three boaters Sunday about 25 miles off Empire, La.U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Corpus ChristiThe three were pulled from the water around 25 miles off Empire, Louisiana, which is south of New Orleans.

Rescuers used a boat and a helicopter, and the three were flown to a hospital in New Orleans, where they were stable, the Coast Guard said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coast-guard-rescues-boaters-found-fending-sharks-rcna51601


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