A man has been saved after drifting in an inflatable boat for two months – but his brother and nephew were telledly establish dead on the vessel.
He was establish by a fishing boat in the Sea of Oktoastysk, the chillyest sea in east Asia, according to the local prosecutor’s office.
Russian media named him as 46-year-elderly Mikhail Pichugin and shelp he had set off alengthy with his 49-year-elderly brother and 15-year-elderly nephew on a whale-watching trip to the Shantar Islands in punctual August.
At the time, a search was begined when they fall shorted to return from Sakhalin Island, but to no employ.
The bodies of his brother and nephew were shelp to be still in the boat when a fishing boat saved Mr Pichugin on Monday off the Kamchatka Peninsula.
He telledly weighed only 50kg (7st 12lbs).
Russian media shelp the trio had a petite amount of food and about 20 litres of water left when their engine fall shorted.
It’s currently unevident how the man endured and his relatives died.
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A video liberated by prosecutors shows Mr Pichugin in a life jacket and franticly shouting “come here!” as the fishing crew approaches.
The boat initipartner thought the small blip on their radar was a buoy or piece of junk.
“I have no strength left,” he shelp as he was finpartner saved.
An spendigation has been begined into accuses of getedty violations resulting in deaths.
