<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A Peruvian fisherman has been found alive in the Pacific Ocean after spending 95 days lost at sea, Peru's state news agency Andina reported Saturday.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Máximo Napa Castro, 61, set off on his fishing boat on December 7 from Marcona, a coastal town in the south of the country, but bad weather caused him to stray from his course and lose direction, according to Andina.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He was found on March 11 by an Ecuadorian fishing boat in waters off the coast of northern Peru, heavily dehydrated and in critical condition, the agency said.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/north-macedonia-nightclub-fire-dozens-killed-in-massive-fire-in-kocani/f10d5a4a-0263-4861-92c0-e2e028045d77" target="_blank"><strong><span>'I don't need my life anymore': Nation rocked by worst tragedy in memory</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>After his rescue, Napa Castro told local media in a tearful interview that he managed to survive by drinking rainwater he collected on the boat and eating insects, birds and a turtle.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He spent the last 15 days without eating, Reuters reported.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Napa Castro told local media he kept thinking about his family to "hold on" to life.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/peruvian-fisherman-found-alive-after-95-days-lost-at-sea/117d26ee-567e-4667-ad6d-5cf580bff0f1" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I said I didn't want to die for my mother. I had a granddaughter who is a few months old, I held on to her. Every day I thought of my mother," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/sydney-crash-menai-father-flees/f6b0098e-ebab-4bc8-9dcc-4fc9e77a6be7" target="_blank"><strong><span>Search for dad who rolled his ute, extracted kids and fled</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The fisherman's daughter Inés Napa Torres thanked the Ecuadorian fishermen for saving her dad's life.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Thank you, Ecuadorian brothers, for rescuing my dad Gatón, God bless you," she said in a Facebook post.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Napa Castro's family and groups of fishermen had been searching for him for three months. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Every day is anguish for the whole family and I understand my grandmother's pain because as a mother I understand her (…) We never thought we would go through this situation, I wouldn't wish it on anyone, we will not lose hope, Dad, of finding you," his daughter wrote on March 3 on Facebook.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Napa Castro received medical checks at the Hospital Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes in Paita, near Peru's border with Ecuador, and was discharged on Saturday, Ecuavisa, a CNN affiliate, reported.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>CNN is trying to contact the fisherman's family.</span></div></div>