The hunter was alive after a drifting more than 90 days at sea, saying that he survived eating birds, turtles, and cockroaches

A navy official said on Saturday that Peru fisherman was alive after being drifted in the sea for 94 days.

Maximo NAPA, 61, was rescued in the small fishing boat on Tuesday after being monitored by an Ecuadorian ship off the coast of Chimbote in northern Peru.

He told local media in an interview with tears that he survived the sea by eating cockroaches, birds and turtles.

“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,” Naba said.

Y Peruvian navy published pictures From the rescue, including one who appears to reunite Napa with his brother after he was saved and another explains the hunter gets medical attention.

On Saturday, he was discharged from the hospital in the coastal city of Beta.

“Mr. Naba has arrived in good physical condition,” said Jorge Gonzalez, Portyan leader in the Navy.

The fisherman sailed on December 7 from the port of San Juan de Marona, but the bad weather conditions and the current caused him to lose the path.

His little boat, which had no radio beacon, ended in the high seas.

“It is a miracle my father was found.” Radio RPP station. “We, as a family, did not abandon hope to find it.”

His niece, Lila Torres Napa, told Radio Radio station that the family planned to celebrate his birthday, which passed during his loss in the sea, According to the BBC.

She said: “The day of his birth was unique because everything he could eat (while he was at sea) was a small correlation file, so it is very important for us to celebrate because, for us, he was born again.”

The Napa ordeal comes a few months after the dramatic rescue of another man who lost it in the sea for a long period of time. In October, Russian Mikhail Pachugin was rescued After spending more than two months in a small boat, it can be blown in the Okhtuksk Sea, off the coast of Russia. He said he survived By fighting the cold and drinking rain water. Pachugin, 46, was launched to watch whales with his 49 -year -old brother and his 15 -year -old nephew. But the boat engine was closed on its way back on August 9. Bachugin’s brother and nephew died later, and tied their bodies to the boat to prevent them from washing.

In 2023, a Australian sailor said More than two months survived I was lost in the sea with his dog. Tim Shaddouk, 51, and his dog Bella sailed from Mexico to French Paulisia when the raw seas affected its boat and its electronics system, letting them wander around the world.