438 days an extraordinary true story of survival at sea

Crawling ashore, he was saved by a local couple living in their own private castaway paradise.īased on dozens of hours of interviews with Alvarenga and his colleagues, search and rescue officials, the medical team that saved his life and the remote islanders who nursed him back to normality, 438 Days by Jonathan Franklin is an epic tale of survival and one man's incredible story of beating the ultimate odds. But Alvarenga developed a method of survival that kept his body and mind intact long enough for the Pacific Ocean to spit him up onto a remote palm-studded island. He considered suicide on multiple occasions - including offering himself up to a pack of circling sharks. Not one stopped for the stranded fisherman. Three dozen cruise ships and container vessels passed nearby. When he was washed ashore on January 30th, 2014, he had drifted over 9,000 miles. 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea by Jonathan Franklin and published by Simon and Schuster, Nov. The best survival book in a decade (Outside magazine), 438 Days is the true story of the fisherman who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean. Alvarenga would not touch solid ground again for 14 months. 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea. José Salvador Alvarenga, 36, and his colleague, the late Ezequiel Cordoba, 22, went on a fishing expedition off the coast of Mexico on Nov. The storm picked up and carried him West, deeper into the heart of the Pacific Ocean. An El Salvadoran fisherman who was lost at sea for over a year says that he prayed to God for forgiveness before he eventually washed ashore 438 days after losing radio contact.

A vicious storm killed his engine and the current dragged his boat out to sea. On November 17, 2012, Salvador Alvarenga left the coast of Mexico for a two-day fishing trip. On 17th November, 2012, Salvador Alvarenga left the coast of Mexico for a two-day fishing trip. 438 Days is the miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded historyas told to journalist Jonathan Franklin in dozens of exclusive interviews.

438 days an extraordinary true story of survival at sea