Man rescued after 67 days adrift speaks of his survival

A Russian whale watcher is found alive, along with two dead relatives, two months after he set off.

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State TV showed 46-year-old Mikhail Pichugin in a hospital in Magadan, talking and smiling after his ordeal.

Chief doctor Yuri Lednev said he was suffering from dehydration and hypothermia but was in a stable condition.

The family went missing after setting off for Sakhalin Island from Cape Perovsky in the Khabarovsk region on 9 August. A rescue effort failed to locate them.

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