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In 2000, three men became real-life castaways when stranded on a deserted island after their fishing charter ran aground

The trio — 51-year-old Joseph Rangel, 50-year-old Lorenzo Madrid and a 24-year-old guide, Jose Luis Ramos Garcia, — had set off on a seven-day fishing adventure off the coast of California

But a wrong turn and bad weather would turn their trip upside down, and lead to tragedy

It was a real-life Castaway story when then 51-year-old Joseph Rangel set off with his lifelong friend Lorenzo Madrid, 50, and a 24-year-old guide, Jose Luis Ramos Garcia, on a seven-day fishing adventure off the coast of California.

It was October 2000 and the trio planned a fishing trip in the Sea of Cortez, an excursion with a group of 12 aboard a 95-foot vessel, where the goa

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