A Brazilian fisherman whose boat sank in the Atlantic Ocean survived an 11-day ordeal in which he floated alone in a freezer with no food or water.
Romualdo Macedo Rodrigues says he was on a three-day fishing trip when his boat began taking on water and sank off the coast of northern Brazil.
"I was desperate," Rodrigues told CNN affiliate Record TV in Brazil. "I thought my end was coming. But thanks God, God gave me one more chance."
Rodrigues saw that a freezer from the boat wasn't sinking, so he jumped inside it and tried to stay as still as possible.
In addition to living with no food or water for the next 11 days, Rodrigues says he had to fend off some unwanted visitors.
"Sharks were surrounding the freezer, but they went away," he said. "I thought (I would be attacked). I stayed on the top (of the freezer). I didn't sleep, I didn't sleep. I saw the dawn, the dusk."
He was finally rescued by a group of fishermen who found him off the coast of Suriname and has now returned home.
"That freezer was God in my life," Rodrigues said. "The only thing I had was the freezer. It was a miracle."
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