CNN PRODUCER NOTE     ErikBeck and his wife were celebrating their wedding while on a cruise, which was sailing from Costa Rica to Jamaica, when their ship came across a small boat stranded at sea on December 17. 'We saw the boat, and when you see something like that it looks like just a boat lost at sea,' he said. The captain of the Princess Cruise-line made an announcement to the passengers of the ship that they were going to approach the small boat, and soon after discovered a group of men stranded inside the small boat.

Standing at the edge of the ship, he captured photographs of the cruise-line’s chief security office making his way down to the small boat and helping the survivors onto the ship. 'The survivors on the boat said they were lost at sea for three weeks,' he said. The ship's cruise-line director continued to update the passengers of the rescue situation, and informed them that they called the Jamaican coast guard, and had received authorization to bring the passengers on board.

He says as he photographed the rescue, he could hear the accents of the survivors and said that they sounded like they were Jamaican. 'We were also a day away from Jamaica,' he explained. He did not have a chance to speak to the survivors once they were brought onto the ship because they were sequestered on the cruise-line.
- Jareen, CNN iReport producer