Lost at sea: The Peruvian fisherman who survived for 95 days on cockroaches and rainwater
Máximo Napa Castro spent three months alone on his drifting boat, without food or water, before being rescued in the middle of the Pacific Ocean
Máximo Napa Castro had been lost at sea for 70 days, more than 500 miles from the Peruvian coast, when he turned 61, rocking in the solitude of his boat. The 10 cans of tuna, eight kilos of rice, and three kilos of noodles with which he had set sail on December 7 from San Juan de Marcona — a port eight hours from Lima — were now a distant memory. The rumbling of his stomach and the sound of the sea had become a single echo that pounded in his ears. And Máximo, weakened by illness since childhood, swallowed with a dry mouth, steeling himself to do what survival demanded: give in to hunger.
