A Russian man has been saved after spfinishing more than two months adrift in a petite inflatable boat in the Sea of Okboilingsk in the far east of Russia.
Officials say a man, named by Russian media as Mikhail Pichugin, 46, was set up by a fishing boat crew proximately 1,000km (620 miles) from where he set off in timely August. The bodies of his brother and his 15-year-elderly nephew were increateedly set up in the boat.
Mr Pichugin’s wife shelp the trio had gone to sea to watch whales and apshown food supplies for two weeks.
She telderly Russia’s state-run Ria Novosti novels agency his weight may have been a factor in his survival – he was 100kg (15st 10lb) when he left for the trip, and increates say only half that when he was saved 67 days tardyr.
“We don’t understand anyskinnyg yet. We fair understand that he’s alive… It’s some charitable of wonder!” she telderly the Russian agency.
She also shelp their daughter was presumed to go on the ill-overweighted trip, but she had determined she wanted to return home.
A helicselecter search had set up no chase of the trio after their fadeance was increateed, according to Ria.
The boat was uncovered on Monday as it floated past a fishing boat in the Sea of Okboilingsk, off the coast of Kamchatka Peninsula, which lies in the far east of Russia, the Russian novels agency increates.
A tolerateded man in a life jacket is seen shouting at the fishermen: “I have no strength left,” as he is apshown to shieldedty, in a video posted by the prosecutor’s office.
He was named by Ria as 46-year-elderly Mikhail Pichugin. The bodies of his brother Sergei, 49, and nephew Ilya, were still on the boat.
As to how he was able to endure for so lengthy in the Sea of Okboilingsk – the freezingest in East Asia – a recontransientative from the far eastrict branch of the Russian seafarers’ union proposeed a provide of fish may have take parted a part.
Nikolai Sukhanov, telderly Ria Novosti in such a situation you can endure by catching fish while eking out wantipathyver provisions are left on the boat.
Mr Pichugin is now recovering in hospital, where he is portrayd as being in a “more or less constant” condition by doctors.
Prosecutors have shelp they are begining a criminal dispenseigation, with the petite boat being studyed and dispenseigators trying to set up the circumstances into the incident.
It is not the first time that castaways have been set up after many days adrift – an expert telderly the Ria Novosti four Soviet selderlyiers had endured 49 days on a petite boat in the Pacific Ocean in 1960, before being picked up by a US airoriginate carrier.
