The fisherman ate tortoises and survived 95 days of floating in the Pacific Ocean – BBC News in Serbian

The Peruvian fisherman was saved after 95 days he spent floating in the Pacific.

To survive, he would eat turtles, birds and cockroaches.

Now again with your family.

Maksimo Napa Castro, 61, started 7. December, as a two-week fishing from the coastal city of Markon, on the south coast Peru.

Ten days later, the storm drove his boat from the course, leaving it with all smaller inventories.

The family launched a search, but Peru maritime patrols failed to locate it.

Only on Wednesday, 12. Marta, Ecuadoric patrol ship Don F found him 1,094 kilometers from the coast, dehydrated and in critical condition.

Maximo survived by catching rainwater in the boat and ate everything he could find.

In the emotional meeting with his brother in Payti, close to the border with Ecuador, 14. Marta, he said he ate bugs and birds before he started catching sea turtles.

The last 15 days was without food.

Thinking about the family, primarily about two-month grandchildren, gave him the strength to endure, said Castro.

« I've been thinking about my mother every day.

« I'm grateful to God he gave me a second chance, » he said.

His mother Elena told the local media that, although the cousins ​​were other optimistic during his disappearance, she began to lose hope.

After rescuing, Castro was taken to Payto for a medical examination before he was transferred to Peru capital, Lim.

At the Horha Chavees International Airport, he was welcomed by the daughter of Ines Napa.

The meeting was emotional.

She welcomed him with a bottle of Pisko, Peruvian National Beverage.

In the Gender District of San Andres in the IKA region, neighbors and relatives told the Peruvian media agency RPP to decorate streets in celebration.

The family planned to celebrate his birthday, who passed while he was lost at sea, said Lejla Torres Napa, relatives of the missing fisherman.

« His birthday was unique because everything he could eat (while at sea) was a small cookie, so it was very important for us because she was born for us again, » she said.

Last year, Rus Mikhail Picugin was saved after she pleated more than two months in a small burglary in the horseshoe, in the East Russia.

Jose Salvador Alvarenga, a fisherman with Salvador, withstood an unusual 14-month temptation in the Pacific.

Starting from the coast of Mexico at the end of 2012. year, in the end it was found on Marshall Islands in early 2014. years, and also survived in rainwater and tortoises.

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