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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 story
Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months
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 story
Totally amazing story! Very interesting, especially considering that this is life, not made up movie like "Cast away".
Highly recommend.
Other than that, he seems legit 
Pretty well fed according to the photo. Did he have a passenger?
Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months
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 story
Totally amazing story! Very interesting, especially considering that this is life, not made up movie like "Cast away".
Highly recommend.
14 months holly hell. Where did he get fresh water?
Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months
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 story
Totally amazing story! Very interesting, especially considering that this is life, not made up movie like "Cast away".
Highly recommend.
14 months holly hell. Where did he get fresh water?
Didn't read the story, did you?
Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months
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 story
Totally amazing story! Very interesting, especially considering that this is life, not made up movie like "Cast away".
Highly recommend.
14 months holly hell. Where did he get fresh water?
Didn't read the story, did you?
I did yes, the first mate on the Essex, Owen Chase, survived and wrote a first person account of what happened which is available in book form. A longer book by Nathaniel Philbrick came out in 2000 that goes into a lot of the background of the crew and goes into great detail of what happened. Some of the crew that survived drew pictures of what they saw, including the whale striking the ship.
It was a very very strange occurrence back then. Whales did not attack ships. This one though, got up a good head of steam and struck the ship headon, then it swam away only to repeat this and strike the ship again.
When I read Philbrick's book back when it came out my first thought was "why hasn't a movie been made about this". Well here it is. Again, the crew members did some very gruesome things along the way to survive. Incredible story. It was to the 1800s as Titanic was a story to the 1900s, everyone through the 1800s knew this story.
Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months
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 story
Totally amazing story! Very interesting, especially considering that this is life, not made up movie like "Cast away".
Highly recommend.
14 months holly hell. Where did he get fresh water?
Didn't read the story, did you?
I did yes, the first mate on the Essex, Owen Chase, survived and wrote a first person account of what happened which is available in book form. A longer book by Nathaniel Philbrick came out in 2000 that goes into a lot of the background of the crew and goes into great detail of what happened. Some of the crew that survived drew pictures of what they saw, including the whale striking the ship.
It was a very very strange occurrence back then. Whales did not attack ships. This one though, got up a good head of steam and struck the ship headon, then it swam away only to repeat this and strike the ship again.
When I read Philbrick's book back when it came out my first thought was "why hasn't a movie been made about this". Well here it is. Again, the crew members did some very gruesome things along the way to survive. Incredible story. It was to the 1800s as Titanic was a story to the 1900s, everyone through the 1800s knew this story.
You didn't read the OP story or you would have known how they got fresh water. Telling a story about the 1800's isn't germaine to this one. Duh!
Hell - he was nearly emaciated!If I remember correctly, he wasn't underweight when he washed up on some Pacific island so it makes me wonder
Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months
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 story
Totally amazing story! Very interesting, especially considering that this is life, not made up movie like "Cast away".
Highly recommend.
Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months
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 story
Totally amazing story! Very interesting, especially considering that this is life, not made up movie like "Cast away".
Highly recommend.
14 months holly hell. Where did he get fresh water?
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