A couple aboard a pontoon boat in Mobile Bay had to be rescued early Tuesday morning, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA).

Troopers with ALEA’s Marine Patrol Division were dispatched to assist a man and a woman on the pontoon boat which had been stranded on the jetties in Mobile Bay near the Buccaneer Yacht Club about 1:52 a.m. Tuesday.

At that time, there was a 17 mph wind out of the south, with gusts up to 35 mph and a thunderstorm in the area, according to the National Weather Service.

As the troopers were in route to the stranded boaters, the boat broke free and drifted into the shore, where the two boaters were assisted by the Marine Patrol.

The two people rescued were identified as 55-year-old David J. Russell of Mobile and 44-year-old Sabrina M. Breganza of Wilmer.

ALEA did not indicate whether either of the two were injured and no other details were released.