Five fishermen misplaced at sea for 55 days rescued by way of Ecuadorian tuna boat

Five fishers who spent 55 days adrift at sea arrived on Saturday at a port within the Galápagos after being rescued by way of a tuna boat, the Ecuadorian military stated on X.

The 3 Peruvians and two Colombians have been lacking since mid-March and had been discovered on 7 May by way of an Ecuadorian boat referred to as Aldo.

The fishers had reported harm to the boat’s alternator two days after atmosphere sail from Pucusana Bay, to the south of Peru’s capital Lima, the military stated in a separate put up on Friday.

The failure led to communique and navigation equipment to malfunction, Ecuadorian military frigate captain María Fares advised the Associated Press, including that they’d no energy at the boat.

“They had no starter, lights and everything that a battery generates,” she stated. To live on, they needed to “take rusted water out of the engine [and] when a fish passed by, they caught it and parboiled it to eat”. They additionally drank rain and sea water to live on, Fares added.

The males are in solid situation and the military stated it was once coordinating with native and overseas government to verify their protected go back to their respective nations.

Earlier this yr, every other Peruvian fisher, 61-year-old Máximo Napa, spent 95 days at sea by myself. He was once additionally rescued by way of an Ecuadorian vessel and returned to Lima in mid-March to be reunited along with his circle of relatives.