A Peruvian fisher was found alive after drifting at sea for 94 days, a navy official said on Saturday, as he was discharged from hospital after his ordeal.
Maximo Napa, 61, was rescued in his small fishing boat on Tuesday after being spotted by an Ecuadorian vessel off the coast of Chimbote in northern Peru.
He told local media in a tearful interview that he survived by eating cockroaches, birds and a turtle.
“I didn’t want to die, for my mother. I have a two-month-old granddaughter – I clung to that. Every day I thought about my mother,” Napa said.
On Saturday, he was discharged from hospital in the coastal city of Paita.
“Mr Napa arrived in good physical condition. He could walk, wash himself. Shocked, but in good physical condition,” said a Peruvian navy port captain, Jorge González.
The fisher had set out on 7 December from the port of San Juan de Marcona but bad weather conditions and the current caused him to lose course.
His small boat, which had no radio beacon, ended up on the high seas.
“It is a miracle that my father has been found,” his daughter Ines Napa told the RPP radio station. “We, as a family, never gave up hope of finding him.”
Source: theguardian.com
