After Daniel Guerrero Martínez and Jose Luis Portela Villegas set off on a fishing expedition from a small town near Guatemala, their boat sank in the Pacific.
The men, aged 53 and 32 respectively, were able to survive after clambering into a cool box that had been on board.
They had set sail from Paredon last Thursday, the Mexican outlet Milenio reported, but their vessel, the Camaronera, went down the next day.
A fishing co-operative sent out a distress call saying it had lost contact with the men, who were later found more than 160km off the coast of Mexico by the country’s navy.
Boats had been dispatched to replicate their route in the hopes of finding them, before a plane was used to search a wide expanse of ocean.
Footage of the rescue showed the men leaning against the sides of the small rectangular box adrift in the ocean. A boat then neared the men, while rescuers battled the waves to reach them.
The men were taken to hospital where they were treated for severe dehydration, before being reunited with their families.
An investigation was launched into the sinking. Authorities have said they believed wind and bad weather may have caused the vessel to drift out to sea.
Mexico’s secretariat of the navy, hailing the rescue effort, said: “The deployment of surface and air units under the Trinomio concept [ship-interceptor-aircraft] made it possible to expand the search, locate the fishermen, bring them to safety and reunite them with their families.”
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