Former contestants on 'The Bachelorette' saved from sinking boat in San Diego trends now

Former contestants on ABC's 'The Bachelorette' were rescued after their boat sank Monday in San Diego, leaving them stranded in the water for more than three hours.

Aaron Schwartzman, Brayden Bowers, and three of their friends saw their boat completely sink some 17 miles off the coast while they were fishing. 

The 10th and 11th place finishers on Charity Lawson's season told KSWB that they were helpless and had nothing but hope left until they were discovered. 

'It's like being trapped and helpless because there's no service, we weren't able to send a distress signal at all, and the only thing you have out there is hope, hope that somebody finds you, hope that a helicopter flies over,' said Schwartzman. 

Two men who were fishing for tuna eventually stumbled upon the group and pulled them aboard their own boat, towing them into land and safety. 

'We were looking for yellowfin tuna and then found a school of men,' joked Chris Keeran, one of the two men who saved the group. 

Aaron - the owner of the boat that sank - said the group was out for some casual fishing on the vessel before the issues began. 

'I finally bought the boat of my dreams, or so I thought, for it to sink on me,' the reality TV contestant said to the San Diego outlet.

According to the men, the sinking occurred after one of their party members' fishing line became entangled with the boat's propeller. 

'My buddy Gavin, he got his line stuck on the engine propeller, so Aaron just went to the back of the boat to lift the engine up and try and untangle it,' Bowers said. 

'All of a sudden, as soon as he stands on the swim deck … the boat literally just sunk,' the travel nurse

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