Come hell or high water: How three friends survived a shipwreck and a shark attack in the Gulf of Mexico

Source: New York Post

As a maiden voyage, the first trip on Paul Le’s newly purchased fishing boat didn’t go much better than the Titanic’s: The vessel ended up on the bottom of the ocean, with Le and his friends hanging for dear life off the sides of two floating coolers in the tumbling waves of the Gulf of Mexico. And their chances of surviving that maritime ordeal? Not good.   “Once the boat went down, the Coast Guard estimated the chances of finding the men in the water was less than 1%,” says Michael Tougias, author of “In Deep Water: A True Story of Sharks, Survival, and Courage” (St.