In 2005, 15-year-old Troy Driscoll and his 17-year-old best friend, Josh Long, found themselves stranded at sea
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- In 2005, two high school teenagers set out for a day of fishing — and got lost at sea
- Troy Driscoll, then 15 years old, and his 17-year-old best friend, Josh Long, were lost for seven days, surviving on jellyfish and rainwater before being rescued
- PEOPLE spoke to the boys that same year, when they broke down the harrowing experience
It was a fairly typical Sunday morning for 15-year-old Troy Driscoll and his 17-year-old best friend, Josh Long, when the two high school students from North Charleston, S.C., took a 15-foot boat out on the ocean for a day of fishing.
But the weather on April 24, 2005, was anything but typical, and within minutes, the two had been pulled so far by a riptide that it would be days before anyone heard from them.
Speaking to PEOPLE in May 2005, Josh recalled, “We wanted to put the boat between the beach and a sand bar, but we weren’t out 20 minutes when the riptide pulled us out.”…