brothers john and elias nevarez and their friend, rebecca sul sulliv sullivan, spent nearly three dayser. >> these people were holding on to a cooler and have been in the water for three days. >> the coast guard searched more than 11,000 mile, but it was a passing fisherman who found the three by accident. >> just picked up three survivors out of the water. i wonder if somebody can come out here and get them from me. >> the boaters who all served in the navy left for a fishing trip may 16th when their body suddenly capsized without warning. they didn't even have time to put on life vests. >> there was no fear. there was truly no fear. we knew we would survive. >> joining us from jacksonville with brothers john and elias and rec rebecca. so in a matter of three pints, your boat capsizes. what do you do? >> grab anything that we can use as a fle tags device, anything that will be able to be used as survival gear. >> which was that keercooler. how tu survive hanging on to nothing but that for three days? >> just talking to each other. like john said, as soon as we hit the water, we looked

time since their rescue, john nevarez recounted the harrowing tale of how he, his younger brother, elias rebecca sullivan, spent three days in the ocean, after their fishing boat was capsized by two huge waves. >> the first wave came over the back end of the boat. and filled the boat considerably with water. the wave that hit us, the first one, upper six foot, to seven. it looked huge. the boat capsized in eight seconds. >> reporter: the radio was knocked out. and there was no time to grab their life preservers. for the next ten hours, they clung to the overturned boat. >> at that point, i looked at each one of them and said, if you have any fears, get rid of them now. >> reporter: they did manage to salvage two coolers. so, they had water to drink and some squid, their fish bait, to eat. twice, they saw coast guard searchers in the distance. but the would-be rescuers didn't see them. nevarez had a military-like regimen, someone always keeping watch while the other two rested. food and water were carefully rationed. >> we checked on each other every minute. to the point where it was almo