Florida fishermen Alex Jeffries, Will Pauling and Russ Coon have recalled spotting the two missing teenage paddleboarders stranded on an oyster reef on Tuesday, March 18, and how they were 'real cold' ...

With her butt in the water and clinging to the gunwales with her ankles, her husband leaned over and hauled her back into the raft. She lost her paddle but wasn’t the first to suffer that indignity.

The first is a motorized inflatable raft, and the second is, an inflatable paddle raft. All boats and passengers have to be equipped with safety gear such as life vests and helmets.