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A Canadian pilot and his passenger survived their small plane crashing into the Sea of Cortez off Mexico's coast, filming footage of their ordeal as they awaited rescue on April 18. Michael MacDonald https://www.facebook.com/mikmac/posts/10171410293275096 said he was taking a marine biologist on one of what had been https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-pilot-mexico-plane-crash-1.7528895 multiple flights observing wildlife when the engine of their Cessna 182 "became dead quiet." After several minutes, the plane plummeted into the water. MacDonald and his passenger managed to unbuckle their seatbelts and exit the sinking aircraft before inflating their life vests, he said in a https://www.facebook.com/mikmac/posts/10171410293275096 Facebook post he wrote a day after the ordeal. MacDonald's passenger had managed to push the distress button on their GPS tracker before the plane went down, and their call for rescue was heard. He said his passenger was "an incredibly good companion in our time of distress. She eventually even laughed at a couple of my terrible 'dad Jokes' as we bobbed around for the next two hours." The pair were scooped out of the water by a "luxury live-aboard SCUBA vessel," then transferred to a Mexican marine search and rescue craft, he said. Footage and photos provided by MacDonald show the two stranded in the ocean, and being picked up by rescuers. He also provided a photo of a cake his daughter made him after the incident that has "Welcome Back, Shark Bait" written on it.(Footage by Michael MacDonald/Storyful via Getty Images UGC)