Trio whose boat sank in Gulf of Mexico rescued from water after fighting off shark

Luan Nguyen said I jabbed him in the eyes' after he and friends were stranded for 28 hours after boat sank off Louisiana coast

Luan Nguyen and his two friends hoped to do little more this weekend than fish and relax.

But their boat trip on Saturday into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico near south-east Louisiana became much more dramatic when the vessel sank and Nguyen found himself having to fight off a shark, before the US Coast Guard finally rescued them after more than a day.