The only one who survives: Russian found a miracle after 67 days in the open sea (photo, video)

Journalists write that on August 9, three residents of Ulan-Us-47-year-old Mikhail Pichugin, together with his brother Sergei and 15-year-old son Ilya, decided to swim from Cape Perovsky in the Khabarovsk Territory to the Sakhalin city of Okha on a boat of catamaran type "Baikat 470". After they enter the sea, the connection with men disappeared. According to the ex -wife of Mikhail Pichugin, on August 4, men and teenager went to rest in the Shantar Islands.

On August 9, they went to Sakhalin and then they disappeared. The woman reported that looking for a missing group of tourists began only on August 14. Rescuers launched a search and rescue operation from the air, but they did not bring the search. Since then, nothing has been known about tourists. Only on October 14, a catamaran with tourists was found off the coast of Kamchatka. He drifted 23 km from the shore of Kamchatka, which is almost 820 km north of the end point of travel of tourists - oh.

According to the media, the crew of the fishing vessel saw a label on the radar and initially decided that it was buoy or garbage. However, it became clear that it was a boat where the fisherman's team decided to swim. The director of the company-owner Alexei Arikov said that Pichugin was signaling during the meeting, but he could not communicate because of his condition.

The man and the boat were lifted ashore Travaler, and the fishermen were notified by the relevant services of the identified catamaran. The shipowner also reported that the surviving man was conscious, but would be very exhausted and very thin. On October 15, the man was taken to hospital in Russian Magadan, where he was hospitalized and put in intensive care.

Doctors reported that the patient's condition is "more or less stable" and the patient will take all the necessary tests and have a examination. According to Baza, after salvation fishermen, Pichugin told them how he managed to survive. According to him, his nephew Ilya died first. It happened in early September, and then they with the brother and body of the nephew drifted in the boat for another three weeks.

At the end of September, according to the man, both of them have already started to form beds. To reduce the pain a little, his brother decided to wash. However, he did not resist and fell into the water. Michael was able to get his brother from the ice water, but he was freezing. He leaned more, and in a few minutes Michael realized that his brother had died. According to exjuszhin, he and his relatives had a supply of food and water for about two weeks.

The woman also said that her ex -husband is overweight: he weighs about 100 kg. This opinion is shared by a local trade union figure in the sphere of fishing Mykola Sukhanov. He believes that the survival of pichugin helped over weight, as well as caught in the sea raw fish and seawater, which is drunk in the absence of fresh, evaporating salt from it. Dr.

Medical Sciences, Professor invokes Tsibikov also expressed the opinion that the overweight helped the man to survive during a two -month drift in the Okhotsk Sea. The scientist believes that the man has the process of destruction of fat, in which water is released. "And so dehydration on it was less detrimental than his friends who had a normal body weight," the scientist stated.