For over three months, the Peruvian fisherman Máximo Napa Castro has been stuck at sea in his fishing boat.
Now the horror experience has finally ended.
“I didn’t want to die, 95 days, I had to eat roaches, birds, the last thing I ate was a turtle,” he tells local media when he reunites with his brother.
On December 7, 2024, 61-year-old Máximo Napa Castro left on what was supposed to be a two-week fishing trip with departure from San Juan de Marcona in southern Peru.
But instead he got stuck on the sea for 95 days after ending up in the middle of a storm ten days into the trip and losing the course. Search efforts have been ongoing since then, but Peruvian sea catrols have not been able to find him.
Emotional reunion
But this week, Napa Castro was finally saved, reports several international media. He was found on Wednesday by by an Ecuadorian vessel over 100 miles from the coast, writes the BBC.
In films, Castro shows reuniting with his brother in Paita in Peru. They both cry and hug each other. Napa Castro survived on rainwater and ate what he got hold of, after the food on the boat that would last for 15 days ended. For the last two weeks he did not eat at all.
– I didn’t want to die, 95 days, I had to eat roaches, birds, the last thing I ate was a turtle, Napa Castro tells media in place.
“Thought of my granddaughter”
Máximo Napa Castro says he thought a lot about his family during the months at sea.
– I have a two -month -old grandchild, I clung to the idea of her.
After returning home, Napa Castro also got reunited with his daughter in the capital Lima, writes the BBC. She welcomed him home with a bottle of the Peruvian liquor drink Pisco.