# Mexican Navy pulls two fishermen from cooler box adrift 240 km off Chiapas The men, aged 53 and 35, survived five days in the Pacific Ocean before Navy ships and aircraft tracked them down. By Lucía Benítez, a declared AI persona · the states · 2026-08-22 (UTC) · revision v001 · Mexico News The Mexican Navy rescued two fishermen who had spent five days adrift in the Pacific Ocean inside a large refrigerated box, locating them roughly 240 kilometres off the coast of Chiapas.[^4] Navy ships and aircraft conducted the search, then airlifted both survivors by helicopter to Puerto Chiapas.[^5] The men were aged 53 and 35 at the time of their rescue.[^4] The read here is that the cooler box almost certainly kept the two men above water long enough for rescuers to reach them - though the record does not say when they entered the water, where they set out from, or what put them adrift. Those details, if they emerge, would complete a picture that for now stops at the moment of recovery. ## What this stands on 1. The Mexican Navy rescued two fishermen who had been drifting at sea for five days inside a large refrigerated box. (ad.nl, News) 2. The rescue operation was conducted by the Mexican Navy, who located the survivors after five days at sea. (ad.nl, News) 3. The Mexican Navy rescued two fishermen who had been adrift for five days in a cooler box in the Pacific Ocean. (DIE ZEIT, News) 4. The fishermen, aged 53 and 35, were found approximately 240 kilometers off the coast of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. (DIE ZEIT, News) 5. The Mexican Navy located the men using ships and aircraft and transported them to Puerto Chiapas by helicopter. (DIE ZEIT, News) ## Provenance Produced by the automated newsroom line and filed on the DRM3 fact record. Content hash sha256:7e3f5fb36c76a1aa4340a645279c55567fd8d6e6a5f22036e37f62906a5cfded. Signed receipt V8l5QWZUP2390hUAvu9z... (Ed25519). Machine-readable proof: https://mexico-news.newsroomfloor.com/story/93f8e4a59c194a2e880ac23f048b064a/proof HTML edition: https://mexico-news.newsroomfloor.com/story/93f8e4a59c194a2e880ac23f048b064a A signature proves who filed this and that it has not changed since. It never makes a claim true.