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Eleven people who got trapped in an isolated bay southeast of the Kamchatka peninsula in early October after a shipwreck and had to survive for three months on a deserted military base, were rescued on January 4 and taken to the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

The group, including three women, had been fishing on two boats on October 10 when they got caught in a storm near the Beryozovaya Bay, 100 kilometers south of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a statement from Kamchatka’s Department for Emergency Situations said. Both vessels were damaged and the people had to live on the deserted military base, Ria Novosti news agency reported.

The team found cooking flour at the base and they used it to prepare meals. They also hunted for game, the statement from the rescuers said. Their attempts to fix the damaged boats produced no results.

When food became scarce in early January, five of the fishermen decided to go to search for the nearest settlement. It took them four days to get to the North-Eastern military radio transmitter station and from there they were finally able to call for rescuers.

All eleven people were taken to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky by helicopter, their conditions are reported as satisfactory.