The fisherman found alive after drifting at sea for over 90 days

A Peruvian fisherman was found alive after being pressed at sea for 94 days, a naval officer said on Saturday when he was released from the hospital after his ordeal.

The 61 -year -old Maximo Napa was saved in his small fishing boat on Tuesday after discovering Chimbote in the north of Peru by an Ecuadoranian ship off the coast.

He told the local media in a tearful interview that he was surviving 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 stuck to it. Every day I thought of my mother,” said Napa.

The Peruvian Navy published pictures Of the rescue, including one that shows Napa who reunited with his brother after he was saved, and another who shows the fisherman who receives medical help.

On Saturday he was released from the hospital in the coastal town of Paita.

“Mr. Napa arrived in a good physical condition. He could go, wash himself. Shocked, but in a good physical relationship,” said the Peruvian port of the Navy, captain Jorge Gonzalez.

The fisherman sailed from the port of San Juan de Marcona on December 7th, but bad weather conditions, and the current led to it losing the course.

His little boat, which had no radio beacon, landed on the high seas.

“It is a miracle that my father was found,” said his daughter Ines Napa RPP radio station. “As a family, we never gave up hope of finding him.”

His niece, Leyla Torres Napa, told the RPP radio station that the family wanted to celebrate his birthday that had passed when he was lost at sea. According to the BBC.

“The day of his birth was unique because everything he (while he could eat at sea) was a little cookie. So it is very important for us that we were celebrated because it was born again,” she said.

Napa’s torture takes place just a few months after the dramatic rescue of another man who has lost at sea over a longer period of time. In October, Russian Mikhail Pichugin was saved After more than two months in a small inflatable boat in the sea of Okhofsk off the coast of Russia. He said he survived With cold cold tremors and drink rainwater. The 46-year-old Pichugin had watched his 49-year-old brother and 15-year-old Neffen Whales. But the engine of the boat closed on the way back on August 9th. Pichugin’s brother and nephew died later, and he tied their bodies to the boat to prevent them from being washed away.

In 2023 an Australian sailor said he said Survived more than two months lost with his dog at sea. The 51 -year -old Tim Shaddock and his dog Bella sailed from Mexico to French Polynesia when the Raue See damaged their boat and its electronics system, causing them and cut off by the world.