Scuba diving couple reveals how they stayed alive for 38 hours while lost at sea

An Oklahoma couple who went missing while scuba diving person spoken retired and revealed nan horrific injuries they suffered while mislaid astatine sea.

Kim and Nathan Maker spent 38 hours floating successful nan treacherous waters of nan Texas seashore aft a large wind separated them from their diving group.

The mates held connected to each different for beloved life arsenic nan U.S. Coast Guard searched complete 1,600 miles for them. 

They suffered jellyfish stings and sunburns while treading nan shark infested waters of nan Gulf of Mexico and family said Nathan was astir successful a diabetic coma erstwhile he was rescued, reported KOCO.

'Because our assemblage temperatures were dropping, we needed to support swimming aliases we astir apt would person stiff to death,' Kim told Good Morning America.

'He [Nathan] is perfectly nan logic that we are alive, conscionable keeping our spirits up because it would person been really easy to springiness up.'

The mates sewage separated from their group aft helping different female who had mislaid her grip connected nan down statement - a statement that helps divers get to calmer waters.

As nan female grabbed connected to nan rope, Kim sewage knocked disconnected and large wind quickly rolled successful sweeping distant nan couple.

'The vessel was getting smaller and smaller and smaller until its wholly retired of sight,' Nathan said.

'Kim and I conscionable benignant of took inventory of what we had connected america and we tethered ourselves together.'

When nan large wind came successful and different divers made it backmost connected nan boat, they instantly announcement nan Makers were missing and began searching for them.  

The group enlisted nan thief of nan Coast Guard who were conscionable 8 hours distant from calling of nan hunt erstwhile they recovered nan Makers.

Satellite footage captured nan infinitesimal rescuers spotted nan mates from nan level successful nan murky waters early Friday greeting and sent a vessel to them.

'When that plane, it turned its chemoreceptor towards us, Kim hits SOS connected her ray and it saw us,' Nathan said.

'Just retired of nan area of our eyes this speedboat comes conscionable streaming successful and each of a abrupt I tin perceive nan voices of nan coastguard guys,' said Kim.

'This sounds cheesy but I really judge we saw nan manus of God that time and it was nan manus of nan coastguard,' Nathan said.

'I deliberation nan biggest point was conscionable judge successful each other.'

Family and friends are billing nan rescue arsenic thing short of a occurrence arsenic large wind swells threatened to swallow nan brace whole. 

'We convey everybody for their concerns and their prayers. This occurrence was performed by nan Coast Guard astatine God’s direction,' Charles Owen, Nathan's uncle, told KFOR.

Lisa Shearin, a chap diver connected nan fateful travel said:  'People don’t past that and not person a communicative to tell. They person a greater purpose, obviously, God genuinely did spare them.'

After nan mates was released from nan hospital, they went to their favourite Houston deli, Kenny & Ziggy's.

The edifice shared a photograph to Facebook pinch 1 of nan owners and nan mates arsenic they enjoyed their meal.

'While they were floating successful nan water, pinch nary protection, they said each they could deliberation astir was really they wanted to eat astatine Kenny & Ziggy's,' nan deli said.

'They were released from the hospital this greeting and came consecutive to nan deli to eat and Ziggy sewage to meet them. It’s a existent occurrence that they were not injured successful immoderate measurement aliases attacked aliases eaten by sharks.'