The Russian authorities announced on Tuesday that they had rescued the man, whose boat drifted in the waters of the northwest Pacific for 67 consecutive days. However, his brother and nephew perished during the ordeal.
Images on social media showed a thin man with a beard wearing an orange emergency vest and a hooded coat in a sailboat-like catamaran, flying a flag red from a small stick.
On Oct 14, a boat was found in the sea of? “Okhotsk”, legal authorities in Russia’s Far East announced on Telegram, referring the waters of 1.58 million sq km (610,000 square miles).
The regional prosecutor in charge of transport matters added, “Two people were killed and one person survived.” “He is receiving assistance with medical care.”
Fishermen finally saw the boat with the bodies and the man aboard near Ust-Khayruzovo village, located off the coast Kamchatka Peninsula, according to the post.
The authorities did not immediately identify any of the travelers.
The SHOT Telegram channel in Russia reported that the boat was located about 1,000 km (621 mile) away from its original destination.
Legal authorities reported that two men accompanied by their 15-year old son set sail from a cape on the Khabarovsk Krai region on August 9 to the town of Okha, on the island of Sakhalin.
After a time, the contact was lost and their location remained unknown.
Baza Telegram, a channel closely associated with Russia’s security forces, reported that the 46-year-old survivor was in a serious condition when he was admitted to hospital after his brother, 49, and the teenager, 15-years-old, had both died on the sea.
The search for the boat that went astray lasted a month, but was unsuccessful. Reporting by Lidia Kelley in Melbourne, Editing by Clarence Fernandez
(source: Reuters)