STEPHEN FRAZIER, CNN ANCHOR: "Time" magazine is calling this the summer of the shark, and we have another shark story, this one here in the United States; the story of a very lucky Florida fisherman named Mike Brown. We get details from CNN affiliate station WFLA in Tampa.</s>MIKE BROWN, FISHERMAN: Slapped myself around to stay awake so I wouldn't fall off the boat.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER (voice-over): It sounds like a tale on the high seas from an adventure novel to. But to 29-year-old Mike Brown, it was a real life drama.</s>BROWN: A 10-foot wave.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Brown's 10-foot boat capsized Monday evening about two miles off Egmont Key, and he drifted in the Gulf for the next 24 hours. He waited for help.</s>BROWN: I was thinking eventually somebody would cruise by and ask me if I'm all right.</s>MCNALLY: And late Tuesday afternoon, someone did. This man, Captain Bob Ostrum. He came along in his boat Double-</s>O. CAPT. BOB OSTRUM, FISHERMAN: I saw something red floating, I thought it was a -- I didn't know what it was. I went over to see what it was, and he was sitting on top of the capsized vessel.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Captain Ostrum pulled Brown on board Double-O, and the Coast Guard brought him to</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He is alive he had life jacket on.
Fisherman Rescued After Boat Capsizes in Gulf of Mexico