//Russian Man Rescued After 66 Days At Sea Dropped 50 kg, Lived On Rainwater//
Mikhail Pichugin, 46, was rescued by a fishing boat Monday off the coast of the far eastern Kamchatka peninsula, more than two months after he set off on a boat trip with his brother and 15-year-old nephew, both of whom died aboard.
Moscow:A Russian man who endure 66 days loose adrift in a little inflatable boat on Wednesday talked from his medical clinic bed about his trial.
Mikhail Pichugin, 46, was protected by a fishing boat Monday off the bank of the far eastern Kamchatka landmass, over two months after he set off on a boat trip with his sibling and 15-year-old nephew, both of whom passed on board.
Taken to a medical clinic in the city of Magadan, Pichugin was alright to talk momentarily to columnists Wednesday, lying in an emergency clinic bed.
Looking pale with red-rimmed eyes yet not skinny, he gave a couple of subtleties of how he figured out how to get by in the Ocean of Okhotsk. "With God's assistance, by what other means? On the off chance that a boat called Heavenly messenger saved me," he said, grinning, alluding to the name of the fishing boat whose group spotted him.
"I gathered water," he said. He likewise credited a camping bed loaded up with camel hair for assisting him with getting by."It's wet, it doesn't get dry however you slither under it, you wriggle around a little and you get warm."
"I had no way out. I have my mom at home, my girl," he added on his inspiration to reside.Magadan delegate lead representative Tatiana Savchenko said his condition was "agreeable".
She said the organization would pay for Pichugin to fly home and for family members to visit.Pichugin comes from Ulan-Ude in Siberia yet was dealing with the far eastern island of Sakhalin as a driver.He set off from the bank of the Khabarovsk district on August 9 with his meeting sibling Sergei, 49, and nephew Ilya, 15, on an intersection to Sakhalin intended to require a couple of hours.
At the point when they neglected to show up, Russian heros overviewed the region by helicopter and plane, thinking the boat had floated towards Kamchatka, didn't yet find anything and the hunt was ultimately canceled.
The boat was tracked down around 1,000 kilometers (670 miles) from its beginning stage.Pichugin might have endure in view of his corpulent 100-kilogram (220 pounds) height, as per his better half. Russian TV announced he weighed just 50kg when tracked down on Monday.His significant other Yekaterina told RIA Novosti news organization: "It's a sort of marvel". She said the men had taken sufficient food and water to endure just fourteen days.
Transport examiners have sent off a test into potential breaks of security rules, raising the possibility that Pichugin could confront a lawbreaker allegation and chance a prison term of as long as seven years.Russian TV detailed the men ought to have taken a satellite telephone, the main method for correspondence in the Ocean of Okhotsk.
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