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Texas men survive 8 days at sea

Three friends from Texas went fishing August 22nd in the Gulf of Mexico.  Their boat cap-sized, and for 8 days the men survived on crackers, beer, and water from the tank on their boat reserved for cleaning fish slime.  They were surrounded by sharks (my personal biggest fear in life) and 130 miles from land.

"Phillips said the roughest time was during the heat of the day, when they would try to endure the sun's rays and keep up their spirits. The men also started seeing things.

"About the fourth or fifth day we started hallucinating about people dropping off food and water," Phillips said. "And we were talking to them, but they weren't there," Phillips said.

One thing the men saw that wasn't a hallucination was sharks.

"We had a bunch of black-tipped sharks schooling up under the boat," Phillips said. "One of them jumped across the back of the boat."

My hats off to you, gents.  Not all news is bad news these days.