A Russian who drifted for 2 months in the Sea of Okhotsk tells how he managed to survive
Recently rescued Russian Mikhail Pichugin shared details of his two-month drifting in the Sea of Okhotsk.
The man shared the secrets of survival in such conditions.
According to Pichugin, he remained alive “with God’s help.”
The 46-year-old Russian also noted that he collected rainwater.
The man managed to keep warm thanks to a sleeping bag made of camel wool.
Your feet are wet, you crawl under it, wiggle around, and get warm, MIA Rossiya Segodnya quotes the rescued man as saying.
Pichugin added that the cause of death of his brother and 15-year-old nephew was exhaustion.
The rescued man also lost a lot of weight: during the time he was drifting in the Sea of Okhotsk, the man lost 50 kg.
The disappearance of a catamaran in August
On the ninth day of August, Mikhail Pichugin, together with his brother and nephew, set out for the Sea of Okhotsk on the boat “Baikat 470”.
The tourists wanted to sail from Cape Perovsky (Khabarovsk Krai) to the settlement of Okha (Sakhalin).
After some time, contact with the travelers was lost.
For a long time, the search for the missing ship yielded no results.
But on October 14, the boat was found off the coast of Kamchatka. It turned out that only one tourist, Mikhail Pichugin, was left alive after two months of drifting. But his brother and nephew had died.
Pichugin was hospitalized. At the moment, doctors assess the rescued man's condition as "more or less stable."
