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Since james was last seen by the time the ship alerted the coast guard. their search area included her than 7,000 naught call square smiles, about the size of massachusetts. all the while, james was treading water in the gulf of mexico, an area frequented by sharks. >> i thought it was a shark. it had more like a flat mouth. it came up and bumped one of my legs, and i kicked it with my other leg. it scared me, not knowing what it was or at the time how big it was. >> reporter: as it staerted to get dark again, james feared he wouldn't survive another cold night at sea, when suddenly he saw a t...

Saw a tanker ship, as he swam towards it the coast guard spotted james flapping his arms in the water. >> 3:00 o'clock. >> reporter: the coast guard believes james had been in the water more than 15 hours his daring rescue caught on camera just in the nick of time. >> i swam to him as fast as i could. as i got to him, i shoved the rescue sling under his arms, he collapsed into it. he had nothing left. >> reporter: not even his clothing. >> first thing i told him is i don't have any clothes on, because i didn't. i stripped out of everything. he said that's fine. and i said, okay. he told me to ...

It was a busy Remembrance Sunday in more ways than one for Falmouth lifeboat crews with two call outs in one day

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