Drifted two months in Mikhail Pichugin told reporters in the Sea of Okhotsk how he managed to survive, RIA Novosti correspondent reports.
"Well, with God's help. I won't say anything more. Rainwater was collected. My feet were wet, it was cold. But there was a sleeping bag, there was camel hair. Your feet are wet, you get under it, you wiggle, you get warm," Pichugin recalled.
He added that his brother and nephew died of exhaustion. He himself lost 50 kilograms.
Earlier, the press service of the Far Eastern Transport Prosecutor's Office reported that on August 9, two men and the 15-year-old son of one of them moved to the Sea of Okhotsk on a catamaran-type boat "Baykat 470". Soon the connection with them disappeared. People were searched by helicopters, but to no avail. On Monday, the catamaran was found by fishermen off the coast of Kamchatka. Of the three, only 46-year-old Mikhail Pichugin survived. The bodies of the victims were in the same place, on the catamaran. Agency GO and Emergency Situations of Buryatia reported that three tourists were from Ulan-Ude, they planned to sail from Cape Perovsky in the Khabarovsk Territory to the city of Okha on Sakhalin. The rescued man was taken to a hospital in Magadan. The doctor told RIA Novosti that Pichugin's condition is "more or less stable."