The 24-foot (7.3-meter), center-console fishing boat sank about 10 a.m. Saturday and stranded the three people without communication devices, the Coast Guard said in a news release.The three were wearing lifejackets and one was showing signs of hypothermia when they were rescued Sunday about 25 miles (40.2 kilometers) offshore from Empire, Louisiana, a small community southeast of New Orleans.The news release said a Coast Guard boat crew saw two of the people fending off sharks, and both of them had injured hands.The Coast Guard did not release their names and did not specify whether the injuries were from bites, from being scraped against sharks’ sandpaper-like skin or from another cause.Empty shelves or unaffordable food: Tunisia's crisis deepensAs suicides rise, US military seeks to address mental health'Nothing's left': Hurricane Ian leaves emotional toll behindDutch activists sue government over assisted suicide“If the family member had not notified the Coast Guard, and if these three boaters were not wearing life jackets, this could’ve been a completely different outcome,” said Lt. Cmdr."