A group of Mara­cas Fish­er­men were able to res­cue three fel­low boaters when their boat over­turned on Wednes­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice said the three men bor­rowed an 11 foot long pad­dle boat to go fish­ing at Dami­an Bay, off the North Coast, at around 3.30 pm.

While at the fish­ing site, the men re­port­ed­ly caught a large fish they thought was an eel and be­gan to pan­ic, caus­ing the boat to rock and over­turned. Boaters near­by saw the com­mo­tion and brought them ashore.

Mara­cas Bay Po­lice were called in, how­ev­er the three fish­er­men said they did not need any med­ical at­ten­tion.