When they opened the door of the cabin they found the German man, identified as 59-year-old Manfred Fritz Bajorat by documents on board, mummified in the spot where he died.
He sat hunched over his arms as if he was sleeping, the radio inches from his hand as if he intended to make one last distress call.
No-one knows how long he drifted for in this condition, but the last time someone remembered seeing him was 2009.