Cruise ship rescues fishermen lost at sea for 20 days (HuffPost)

(170424) -- HAVANA, April 24, 2017 (Xinhua) -- Cruise liner "Empress of the Seas" arrives in Havana April 23, 2017, the second vessel of the U.S. company Royal Caribbean to visit Cuba. (Xinhua/Joaquin Hernandez) (rtg) (ah) (zy) (Photo by Xinhua/Sipa USA)

Two Costa Rican fishermen were rescued by a passing cruise ship Friday night after having been lost at sea for nearly three weeks.

A Royal Caribbean cruise liner picked up the men without injuries, a spokesman for the liner told HuffPost. The two men had been adrift between Jamaica and Cuba since December 1, CNN reports.

According to a statement shared by Royal Caribbean meteorologist James Van Fleet on Twitter, the ship, Empress of the Seas, happened to come across the lost men after changing course because of bad weather. Read more

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