A Peruvian fisherman found himself alive after the drift at the sea for 94 days, said a navy official on Saturday, as he was discharged from the hospital after his ordeal.
Maximo Napa, 61, was rescued on Tuesday in his small fishing boat after being located by an Ecuadoran boat on the coast of the Ximbota north of Peru.
He told the local media in an unfortunate interview that he survived the sea by eating cockroaches, birds and turtles.
« I didn’t want to die, for my mother. I have a two -month -old granddaughter; I clung to this. Every day I thought of my mother, » Napa said.
It Pictures published by the Peruvian Navy From the rescue, including one showing Napa gathering with his brother after being rescued and another who showed that the fisherman received medical care.
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On Saturday, he was discharged from the Hospital of the Coastal City of Paita.
« Mr. Napa arrived in good physical condition. He could walk, wash.
The fisherman had left on December 7 from the port of Sant Joan de Marcona, but the bad weather conditions and the current caused him to lose the course.
His small boat, which had no radio beach, ended at sea.
« It’s a miracle that my father has been found, » her daughter napa said RPP radio station. « We, as a family, never left hope to find it. »
His niece, Leyla Torres Napa, told the RPP radio station that the family was planning to celebrate their birthday, which was passing while being lost in the sea, According to the BBC.
« The day of his birth was unique because everything he could eat (while in the sea) was a small cookie, so it is very important for us to celebrate because, for us, he has reborn, » he said.
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Napa’s arrangement comes a few months after the dramatic rescue of another man lost in the sea for a long period of time. In October, Russian Mikhail Pichugin was rescued After spending more than two months drifting on a small inflatable ship in the Okhotsk Sea on the Russian coast. Said he survived Fighting the rainwater and cold water. Pichugin, 46, had spoken to look at whales with his 49 -year -old brother and the 15 -year -old nephew. But the engine of the boat closed on August 9. Pichugin’s brother and nephew died later, and tied the bodies to the boat to prevent them from washing.
By 2023 an Australian sailor said that survived more than two months Lost to the sea with his dog. Tim Shaddock, 51, and his Bella dog, sailed from Mexico to French Polynesia when the Aspres Seas damaged their ship and their electronics system, leaving them derivatives and sliced from the world.
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