Last week, the Navy rescued a mother and her baby daughter from the choppy waves of the Pacific Ocean. Not to be outdone, the Coast Guard rescued five men adrift in an engine-less boat in the South Pacific.

The men got lost at sea after embarking on a fishing trip in a 14-foot aluminum skiff. Somewhere between leaving Teraina Island, Kiribati on Monday and being found by the Guard on Saturday, the men lost their way and drifted 184 miles into open water.

The boat had no engine and no emergency supplies. Had a rescue coordination center in Fiji not alerted the Guard to the missing boat, those five men would have been well and truly stuck.

The crew of an HC-130 Hercules from Coast Guard Air Station Barbers spotted the wayward boat, and it lowered food, water, radios and flares down to the men. Being in the middle of the ocean and 1,000 miles south of the nearest Coast Guard Air Station, the helicopter chose to help nearby commercial vessels find and pick up the survivors.