‘I was worried I was going to die.’ N.J. fisherman rescues 2 after boat capsizes.

Commercial fishing is never mundane.

It often requires long hours confined to a boat off the coast of New Jersey to harvest the day’s catch.

And sometimes, it turns crews into impromptu rescuers, as was the case with Levi Mullen, a soon-to-be 24-year-old commercial fisherman who came to the aid of two crabbers in the Delaware Bay after intense waves capsized their vessel.

Tim Vedder, who is best known in the fishing community for manufacturing and selling crab traps , was aboard a 17-foot boat with a friend, Brian Kerr, on Thursday evening, setting the traps.

Around the same time, storms from a system that delayed the Philadelphia Eagles-Dallas Cowboys game miles away approached.

As the boat became entangled in another crab trap line, a strong wave capsized it, sending the crab