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In 2005, two high school teenagers set out for a day of fishing — and got lost at sea
Troy Driscoll, then 15 years old, and his 17-year-old best friend, Josh Long, were lost for seven days, surviving on jellyfish and rainwater before being rescued
PEOPLE spoke to the boys that same year, when they broke down the harrowing experience
It was a fairly typical Sunday morning for 15-year-old Troy Driscoll and his 17-year-old best friend, Josh Long, when the two high school students from North Charleston, S.C., took a 15-foot boat out on the ocean for a day of fishing.
But the weather on April 24, 2005, was anything but typical, and within minutes, the two had been pulled so far by a riptide that it would be days before anyone heard from them.
Speaking to PEOPLE in May 2005, J

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