Lost at sea: How a man survived 67 days without seeing land while his brother and nephew were ‘lost’

Russian authorities announced Tuesday that they rescued a man whose small boat had been adrift for 67 days since last August in the waters of the northwest Pacific. However, his brother and nephew died during the adventure. Images on social media showed a thin, bearded man wearing a hooded jacket and orange life jacket aboard a catamaran, which carried a red flag on a small pole. “On October 14, a vessel was spotted in the waters of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk,” Russian legal authorities said via Telegram, referring to waters spanning more than 1.58 million square kilometers. “Two people died, one survived,” the local prosecutor’s office in charge of transport issues said, adding that “he is receiving medical attention.” According to Reuters the boat with the man and the bodies of the dead was eventually spotted by fishermen near the village of Ust-Khairuzovo, off the coast of the peninsula. […]
Source: News Beast

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