Two Turkish fishermen were filmed scrambling to save an 18-month-old Syrian boy from the waters of the Mediterranean on Wednesday after initially mistaking him for dead.
"He's alive! He's alive!" one of the men can be heard screaming, as they desperately pluck the boy to safety and begin trying to clear water from his lungs.
The fishermen, Recep Evran and Cenap Gumran, spotted the infant, Muhammed Hasan, and a group of other people nearby floating in the waters of the Aegean Sea off the town of Kusadasi, Turkey's Hurriyet Daily News reported.
The refugees had been on a migrant ship that sunk while trying to reach Greece.
At the start of the video, the men first rescue the others from the water, believing the baby to be dead because he's pale and cold.
"We were very upset [because we thought] he wasn't alive," said Evran, according to the Associated Press.
"We thought he was dead. Then, when we were pulling Muhammed to the boat, we heard his voice ... And at that moment, we were ecstatic. I said 'He's alive, he's alive!"
The men worked to save the boy, stripping him of his wet clothes and warming him up in a blanket.
On Saturday, the fishermen were reunited with the boy and his grateful family.
Turkish officials told NBC the boy and his mother were in good health.
The boy's mother, Lorin Hanef, thanked the fishermen for saving her son.
"The two of you gave him a new life," Hanef told the fishermen. "We are grateful to you. May God bless you."
More than 550,000 people have arrived by sea into Europe this year, according to the International Organization for Migration. Almost 3,000 people died on the journey.