For 95 days, Máximo Napa Castro, 61, was alone and lost at sea, praying to God and clinging to the hope that he would one day see his mother again.

Without food or water, he ate cockroaches, birds and finally a turtle, whose blood he drank to slake his thirst.

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He talked to God, getting angry at points. “I said to him, ‘What am I going to find here?’” he said. “Who’s going to save me?”

Then he asked for forgiveness.

“Someone is coming or a helicopter is coming,” he recalled thinking. “And then the next day,66jogo he sent me a helicopter.”

Scientists have long speculated about the origin of the Ordovician meteor event, when Earth was bombarded by space rocks at an unusually high rate, producing dozens of craters and sediments packed with meteorites. Previous research implicated a large asteroid that broke apart in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter and sent rocky shrapnel into the inner solar system, where it pelted our planet.

It was March 12, and Mr. Napa Castro, a Peruvian fisherman, had been spotted by the crew of an Ecuadorean tuna boat hundreds of miles off the Peruvian coast, the Peruvian news source RPP News reported.

He had been at sea since Dec. 7, when he left the Peruvian port of Marcona, Peruvian news outlets reported.

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