Filipino seafarer Lacruiser Relativo is receiving praises after he took part in the rescue of an American sailor who was stranded and adrift in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean last Thanksgiving Day, November 29.

Relativo shared the story of the successful rescue in a now viral Facebook post.

He said that a fellow crew member on board their ship “Angeles” spotted 63-year-old Stuart Bee alone in the water just as his boat was sinking.

“Right when the duty officer first saw him drifting, and sounded the rescue alarm, we knew a miracle was about to happen,” Relativo wrote in his post.

The crew managed to rescue Bee “some 80 miles off the eastern shore.”

Relativo said they all felt a great amount of relief that they got to him just in time.

After Bee was rescued, he asked the crew members what day it was.

“By the look on his face, I saw his teary eyes as he made a sign of the cross. He drifted in the open sea for days, maintaining his stance at the top of his capsized boat, to not make any single move as it may trigger his yacht to sink fully,” Relativo said.

They offered the man with clothes and hot meals including his lucky shirt.

“I could give him a new one but this one is my favorite. I wish him the same comfort this shirt has given me during those tiring job interviews. Just like him, I was lucky to get the job. He was lucky too that our course crossed in the Atlantic,” he said.

“Help in any way you can, whenever the opportunity to help is present. Above all, my greatest realization is that it’s important for a person to have faith in something. Something you can hold on to when you are in your lowest low,” he added.