The fisherman saved after 95 days surviving turtles

Peruvian fisherman, surviving at 95 days, lost in the sea in the Pacific, eating turtles, birds and cockroaches, was saved and gathered with his family.

Maximo Napa Castro, 61, left for what was to be a two-week fishing trip from the coastal city of Marcona, on the South Peruvian coast, on December 7th.

Ten days after the storm, he blew up his boat from the course, letting him go home with reducing deliveries.

His family began a search, but Peru’s sea patrols failed to find him.

Only on Wednesday, the Ecuadorian patrol ship Don F found it 1.094 km (680 miles) from the shore, dehydrated and in critical condition.

Maximo survived by catching the rainwater in his boat and eating whatever he can find.

In an emotional gathering with his brother in Paita, near the Ecuadorian border, on Friday he described how he ate cockroaches and birds before he resorted to the turtle. His last 15 days have been spent without food.

Thinking about his family, including his two-month-old granddaughter, gave him the strength to endure, Mr. Castro said.

“I was thinking of my mother every day. I am grateful to God for giving me a second chance.”

His mother Elena told local media that while her relatives remained optimistic during her son’s disappearance, she began to lose hope.

After his rescue, Castro was taken to Paita for a medical assessment before being taken to the Peruvian capital, Lima.

There at Jorge Chavez International Airport, he was greeted by his daughter, Ines Napa in an emotional gathering surrounded by a media scandal. She greeted him at home with a pisko bottle, Peru’s national drink.

In their home neighborhood of San Andres in the ICA region, neighbors and relatives told the Peruvian media agency RPP that they were decorating the streets in the celebration.

His niece, Leila Torres, has said the family plans to celebrate his birthday, which passed until he was lost in the sea.

She said to the agency: “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 to us that we are celebrating because for us he is reborn.”

Last year, Russian Michael Pikugin was rescued after spending more than two months in a small inflatable boat in the sea of ​​Okhotsk, east of Russia.

Salvadoran fish is an exclusive fisherman.

Exiting Mexico at the end of 2012, it was eventually found on the Marshall Islands in early 2014 and also survived rainwater and turtles.