Maximo Napa Castro set off for what should have been a two-week trip on 7 December - but was only found on Wednesday.

Russian Emergencies Ministry officials have launched an urgent mission to rescue 200 people trapped on a sheet of frozen ice.

Hundreds of fishermen stranded on a breakaway ice shelf refused evacuation from rescuers as they drifted out to the Pacific ...

A Russian man has been rescued after surviving for more than two months in a tiny inflatable boat that lost its engine in the ...

Feb 12 (Reuters) - Russia's emergency services said on Wednesday that it had rescued all 139 fishermen stranded on an ice floe drifting in the Sea of Okhotsk in the Western Pacific. Earlier ...

The Sea of Okhotsk lines the coast of Hokkaido Prefecture, the northernmost main island of Japan. Once again, the season of drift ice has arrived. The ice has traveled 1,000 kilometers from the ...

The fishermen were rescued on Wednesday, Feb. 12, after being stranded on an ice floe in the Sea of Okhotsk between Russian and Japan Gabrielle Rockson is a staff writer-reporter for PEOPLE.

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