A Peruvian fisherman was found alive after having derived at sea for 94 days, said a navy official on Saturday, when he was released from the hospital after his event.
Maximo Napa, 61, was rescued in his small fishing boat on Tuesday after being spotted by an Ecuadorian ship off the chimbote coast in northern Peru.
He told local media in an interview with tears that he had survived at sea by eating cockroaches, birds and turtles.
“I didn’t want to die for my mother. I have a two -month -old granddaughter – I hung on to this. Every day I thought of my mother, ”said Napa.
THE Post -posted images of the Peruvian navy Rescue, one of which showing Napa bringing together with his brother after being rescued and another showing the fisherman receiving medical care.
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On Saturday, he was released from the hospital in the coastal city of Paita.
“Mr. Napa arrived in good physical condition. He could walk, wash. Shocked, but in good physical condition,” said the captain of the Port of the Peruvian Navy Jorge Gonzalez.
The fisherman had put the sails on December 7 from the port of San Juan de Marcona, but the poor weather conditions and the current made him lose the capture.
His little boat, who had no radio tag, found himself on the high seas.
“It’s a miracle that my father was found,” said his daughter Ines Napa RPP radio station. “We, as a family, have never abandoned the hope of finding it.”
His niece, Leyla Torres Napa, told RPP radio station that the family planned to celebrate their birthday, which has passed while it was lost at sea, According to the BBC.
“The day of his birth was unique because everything he could eat (at sea) was a small cookie, so he is very important for us that we celebrate because, for us, he renamed,” she said.
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Napa’s test comes only a few months after the dramatic rescue of another man lost at sea for a long time. In October, Russian Mikhail Pichugin was rescued After spending more than two months drifting in a small inflatable boat in the Okhotsk Sea, off the coast of Russia. He said he had survived By fighting, shivering the cold and drinking the rainwater. Pichugin, 46, had left to look at the whales with his 49 -year -old brother and his 15 -year -old nephew. But the engine of the boat stopped on the way back on August 9. Pichugin’s brother and nephew died later, and he tied their body to the boat to prevent them from being swept away.
In 2023, an Australian sailor said he survived more than two months Lost at sea with his dog. Tim Shaddock, 51, and his dog Bella sailed Mexico to French Polynesia when agitated seas damaged their boat and its electronic system, leaving them drifting and cut off from the world.