Five fishermen in the Caribbean are thanking God for their lives after their boat sank in the middle of the night. 

The men were out on the water early Sunday morning when, just after midnight, their boat sank, leaving them stranded in icy waters near the coast of South West Tobago. 

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday shared on Sunday that the men rescued were Captain James Kirwan, 59; Jerome Nicome, 63; Kyle Dyer, 31; Azim Baksh, 35; and Keston Frederick, 36. They were sailing aboard the Crystal Eye, a 55-foot Trinidadian fishing vessel.

After the boat sunk, they sent out a distress signal but it wasn't clear enough for the rescue team. 

With no help in sight, the men put on their life jackets and floated in the icy sea in the dead of night, hoping someone would come along. They floated in the night with nothing but their prayers for two hours. 

Two hours after their boat was claimed by the dark waters, their prayers were answered when a Bahamian Vessel, the 'Siem Spearfish' came upon the fishermen floating. 

"Thank God, all the honor and glory and praise," Nicome told Newsday. "Anybody who hearing me now, trust Christ. I telling you, because He is the one that saved us. God allow us to drift into the vessel that saved us. Nobody was seeing us out there."

The fishermen were transported to the Scarborough Port, where a medical team treated Frederick for hypothermia. Even more astounding is that none of the men required hospitalization.

"The waters was rough, real rough. If wasn't for God, we wouldn't be alive today," Dyer said.

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