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Cruise ship rescues Costa Rican fishermen who had been adrift for 20 days

ABOVE: Images shared with Reuters showed two men going on board a Royal Caribbean lifeboat with the help of the crew late on Thursday. – Dec 24, 2018

A cruise ship has rescued two Costa Rican fishermen who had been stranded at sea for about three weeks.

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Royal Caribbean chief meteorologist James Van Fleet tweeted that the sailors were saved Friday night between Grand Cayman and Jamaica by the Empress of the Seas cruise ship.

Fleet says the cruise ship was not scheduled to be there but had taken an alternate route due to bad weather.

Fleet tweeted on Sunday that the fishermen left Porto Limon, Costa Rica, and had been adrift since Dec. 1. They said they had fallen asleep while their nets were soaking and ran out of gas while trying to return.

Both received medical attention onboard.

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