‘Thank God’: Five fishermen turned to prayer when boat sank in Caribbean – Washington Examiner

Five fishermen stranded in the Caribbean for hours after their boat sank Saturday thanked God for saving their lives.

Captain James Kirwan, Kyle Dyer, Azim Baksh, Keston Frederick, and Jerome Nicome jumped into the sea wearing life jackets as their boat sank off the coast of Tobago. The group was discovered by a Bahamian vessel two hours later, according to Newsday. The report noted that the men attributed their rescue to divine intervention.

"Thank God, all the honor and glory and praise. Anybody who is hearing me now, trust Christ," Nicome told the news outlet. "I'm telling you because He is the one that saved us. God allowed us to drift into the vessel that saved us. Nobody was seeing us out there."

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The Tobago Emergency Management Agency said in a Facebook post Sunday that it had been alerted to a 55-foot Trinidadian fishing vessel, the Crystal Eye, sinking around 12:25 a.m. and noted that the Bahamian vessel had saved the five fishermen.

"Thank you to the Siem Spearfish Crew and all rescue parties involved for their swift action and assistance to the fishermen," TEMA wrote in the post.

Before abandoning the sinking ship, the men had sent out a distress signal, which President Curtis Douglas of the All Tobago Fisherfolk Association said was difficult to make out.

"We couldn't get the exact information because our radio wasn't picking up too clear," Douglas told Newsday. "This was after midnight to 1 o'clock [Sunday morning]."

"The waters was rough real rough," Dyer said. "If [it] wasn't for God, we wouldn't be alive today."

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One of the men, Frederick, was suffering from hypothermia.

"He was quite OK after being treated on the vessel and checked by emergency medical services at the port," TEMA Director Allan Stewart told the outlet, adding that "none of the men needed to be taken to the hospital."

After spending the night in a guesthouse, the men were reunited with family members at the Port of Spain on Sunday evening, according to the report.

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'Thank God': Five fishermen turned to prayer when boat sank in Caribbean - Washington Examiner