This handout photo taken on October 8, 2018 and released on October 10 by the US Navy Seventh Fleet shows Philippine fishermen, whose boat was sunk by a marlin, being rescued by US Navy personnel onto a craft from the USS Wally Schirra in the South China Sea. Photo by GRADY FONTANA / US NAVY / AFP
The US Navy said the men were lucky to survive, especially given the crew said they had drunk seawater.