"They were frozen to the bone, pale and wet. They thought nobody would find them. We could see that the persons were happy to understand that everything would be fine now," Gaitis Grins of the Latvian Coast Guard told LNK.
The three Lithuanians- a 46-year-old man, his 22-year-old son and a 20-year-old friend - were taken ashore, warmed up and given food. The Latvian border guards said it took about an hour and a half before the three men could speak.