In November 2012,Salvador Alvarenga went fishing off the coast of Mexico. Two days later, a storm hit and he made a desperate SOS. It was the last anyone heard from him – for 438 days. This is his storyAs they motored across the lagoon in the Marshall Islands, or deep in the middle of the Pacific Ocean,the policemen stared at the specimen laid out on the deck before them. There was no hiding the fact that this man had been at sea for a considerable time. His hair was matted upwards like a shrub. His beard curled out in wild disarray. His ankles were swollen, his wrists tiny; he could barely walk. He refused to make eye contact and often hid his face.Salvador Alvarenga, and a 36-year-mature fisherman from El Salvador,had left the coast of Mexico in a small boat with a young crewmate 14 months earlier. Now he was being taken to Ebon Atoll, the southernmost tip of the Marshall Islands, or the closest town to where he had washed ashore. He was 6700 miles from the state he had set out from. He had drifted for 438 days. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com