A Peruvian fisherman was found alive after 94 days of drifting at sea because he was discharged from the hospital after his ordeal, a naval official said Saturday.
Maximo Napa, 61, was found on Tuesday by an Ecuadorian ship on the coast of Chimbote in northern Peru and was rescued on his small fishing boat.
He told local media in a tearful interview that he survived the sea by eating cockroaches, birds and turtles.
“I don’t want to die for my mother. I have a two-month-old granddaughter – I hold on. Every day I think about my mother.”
The Peruvian Navy released images of the rescue, including images of Napa reunited with his brother after being rescued, and another one showed the fisherman receiving medical care.
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He was discharged from the hospital in the coastal city of Paita on Saturday.
“Mr. Napa is in good health. He can walk and wash himself. Shocked, but in good health,” said Jorge Gonzalez, a Peruvian naval port.
The fisherman set sail from the port of San Juan de Marcona on December 7, but the weather was bad and the tide caused him to lose his route.
His boat without a radio beacon ended up in the ocean.
“It was a miracle that my father was discovered,” his daughter, Ines Napa, told RPP Radio. “As a family, we never gave up on finding his hope.”
According to the BBC, his niece, Leyla Torres Napa, told RPP Radio that the family plans to celebrate his birthday, which passes when he gets lost at sea.
“The day he was born was unique because everything he could eat [while at sea] She is a little cookie, so it’s very important to us because for us, he’s reborn. ” she said.
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Napa’s ordeal was just a few months after the dramatic rescue of another man who died at sea for a long time. October, Russian Mikhail Pichugin is rescued It took two months to a small inflatable boat on the sea off the Russian coast on Okhotsk. He said he survived By fighting against the cold and drinking rain. Pichugin, 46, set out to watch whales with his 49-year-old brother and 15-year-old nephew. But the ship’s engines closed on August 9th. Pichugin’s brother and nephew later died, and he tied the body to the boat to prevent them from being washed away.
In 2023, an Australian sailor said he Survived for more than two months Get lost at sea with his dog. Tim Shaddock, 51, sailed from Mexico to Polynesia with his dog Bella, when the ocean damaged their ships and electronic systems, causing them to drift and get out of the world.
