94 days to drift. Peruvian fisherman survived eating cockroaches and thinking about mother

At 61, he went to Christmas, New Year’s Eve and… 3 months whole. It was rescued this week in good physical condition – after 94 days to eat cockroaches and birds.

Maximo Napa is 61 years old and spent three months out of sea. The Peruvian was found this Tuesday by an Ecuadorian ship, passing off off the coast of Chimbot.

“I didn’t want to die for my mother. I have a two-month granddaughter-I clung to it. Every day I thought of my mother, ”said Napa in Tears, quoted by, when she was rescued. And that’s how it remained alive, thinking about the family.

The Peruvian survived 94 dias In a small fishing vessel, which uncontrolled and eventually ended up the high sea, where he could not leave until he was rescued – ended up to Ecuador.

Alone on the small boat (no radio-factor or food), she spent Christmas and New Year-left on December 7 of the port of San Juan de Marcona, where she moved involuntarily due to the bad weather conditions and the strong current.

To subsist, it counts, fed on cockroaches, birds and even a turtle. To drink, I used rainwater. He was discharged this Saturday from the hospital of the coastal city of Paita, Peru.

“Mr. Napa arrived in good physical condition. He could walk, wash himself. Shocked, but in good physical condition ”said Porto Captain Jorge González.

“It’s a miracle that my father has been found,” his daughter Ines Napa told the radio station. “We, as a family, We never lose hope to find it. ”