The pair have been paddleboarding whereas on a tenting journey once they acquired caught within the tide, inflicting them to float 50 nautical miles (92 kilometres) offshore.
A passing fisherman, Lorne Benussi, was asleep on his boat when he heard screams for assist.
He shone his flashlight into the darkness and noticed the couple within the water.
He jumped into the fishing boat dingy and pulled them aboard, saving them from their 72-hour ordeal in shark-infested waters.
”When we shone the torch out, there was a couple floating past us in the tide treading water and so we quickly jumped in the tinny and raced over to them,” he stated.
“They were just absolutely buggered – we had to pull them in the dingy and they just virtually collapsed on the floor.”
Benussi stated the pair have been so exhausted from the ordeal they merely went to sleep.
“(They were) just in shock and shaken and crying,” he stated.
“They were so traumatised by it the poor buggers.”
Benussi stated it was fortunate the pair escaped with out severe accidents because of the space being recognized for large sharks and crocodiles lurking within the estuaries.
”I know what it is like out on the water and the amount of big munchies out there, that area is known for big sharks and once you’re in those estuaries it’s croc-infested waters so anything can happen,” he stated.
The fisherman added it was fortunate he discovered the pair when he did.
“If they’d drifted north no-one would have found them, they would have been lost at sea,” he stated.
“They were just lucky they went in the right direction if they’d gone [the] other direction it would have been a whole different story.”
He stated it was “unbelievable” to see somebody floating previous the boat in the midst of the night time in the midst of the ocean.
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The couple was given meals and water on Benussi’s ship.
It’s understood that the couple have been a part of a journey group of 25 passengers who travelled from Gladstone to North West Island in Queensland.
When again on land, the couple was carried to ambulances on stretchers to Capricorn Coast hospital in a secure situation.
