Jared Rogerson
2/13/2014
Y News
Mr Calic
Castaway Lost at Sea for 13 Months Washes Ashore
Castaway claims to have been adrift in the Pacific ocean for 13 months, starting in December 2012. This man is Jose Alvarenga, and he is a native of El Salvador. Earlier this month he washed ashore, and was in a very unstable medical condition. He claims to have lived off of birds and turtles, as well as rainwater and his own urine to survive. He was discovered about twenty miles of the Marshall Islands.
Alvarenga told the press that he had gone on a fishing trip with a teenage companion, and had been blown of course in a terrible storm, where the engines broke down. They were stranded in the middle of the pacific, with no land anywhere near them. His teen companion died within the first few weeks because he refused to eat raw fish and turtles, and to drink his own urine. Officials are not sure what Alvarenga did to the body at this point. Alvarenga said this about how he found land, "I had just killed a bird to eat and saw some trees".
He eventually arrived ashore and then passed out. He woke up sometime later and there were two native women who found him in only his torn underwear, and also found his broken fiberglass "boat". Since then, he has been in the hospital with unstable medical condition, and he is very dehydrated. Also, officials now have no reason to doubt the castaways story because of research that shows that the time he had spent in the Pacific is indeed possible and even probable, due to currents around where they think he was stranded.
Alvarenga told the press that he had gone on a fishing trip with a teenage companion, and had been blown of course in a terrible storm, where the engines broke down. They were stranded in the middle of the pacific, with no land anywhere near them. His teen companion died within the first few weeks because he refused to eat raw fish and turtles, and to drink his own urine. Officials are not sure what Alvarenga did to the body at this point. Alvarenga said this about how he found land, "I had just killed a bird to eat and saw some trees".
He eventually arrived ashore and then passed out. He woke up sometime later and there were two native women who found him in only his torn underwear, and also found his broken fiberglass "boat". Since then, he has been in the hospital with unstable medical condition, and he is very dehydrated. Also, officials now have no reason to doubt the castaways story because of research that shows that the time he had spent in the Pacific is indeed possible and even probable, due to currents around where they think he was stranded.
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