STORY: :: A Russian man is rescued after 67 days adrift in the northwest Pacific ocean
:: Authorities say the 46-year-old is in a serious condition, and that his brother and nephew died during the ordeal
:: October 14, 2024
:: Sea of Okhotsk
Social media images showed a thin, bearded man wearing a hooded jacket and orange emergency vest in a catamaran-like sailboat flying a red flag from a small pole.
“On Oct 14, a vessel was discovered in the waters of the Sea of Okhotsk,” legal authorities in Russia’s Far East said on the Telegram messaging app, referring to waters that sprawl over 610,000 sq miles.
The boat with the man and bodies aboard was finally sighted by fishermen near the village of Ust-Khayruzovo, off the coast of the Kamchatka peninsula, the post added.
Authorities did not immediately identify the voyagers.
Russia’s SHOT Telegram channel said the boat was found about 621 miles from its initial destination.
The legal authorities said two men, accompanied by the 15-year-old son of one, set sail on Aug. 9 from a cape in Khabarovsk Krai in the region, headed for the town of Okha on Sakhalin island.
A month-long search after the boat went astray proved unsuccessful, it added.
