Posted on 12/15/2015 8:38:12 PM PST by Theoria
Salvador Alvarenga, who survived for 438 days adrift at sea, is now being sued by his fellow fisherman's family amid accusations that he ate Ezequiel Cordoba's corpse
A fisherman who stunned the world by surviving 15 months lost at sea is being sued for $1 million (£650,000) by the family of his dead colleague, who accuse him of eating their relative to ensure his own survival.
Salvador Alvarenga, 36, is the only man known to have survived for over a year at sea.
And when he set sail from the coast of Mexico in November 2012, he thought he was setting out on a two-day fishing trip, having paid 22-year-old Ezequiel Cordoba $50 to accompany him.
But a vicious storm with 10ft waves knocked out the 25ft boat’s communication systems, and washed their supplies overboard.
Mr Alvarenga, a hard-living, tough professional from El Salvador, radioed the boat’s owner and demanded to be rescued. His last words to land were: “Come now, I am really getting ------ out here.â€
Cordoba, a novice fisherman, panicked, said Mr Alvarenga.
He suffered hallucinations and tried to throw himself overboard, where sharks were circling. The pair survived for several months by catching fish and birds, and drinking turtle blood and rainwater. But one bird they ate made Cordoba severely sick, and they found a yellow poisonous sea snake inside its stomach.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Some of his prior FR appearances:
Mexican castaway 'getting better' after months adrift in Pacific
First words of naked Pacific castaway to islanders after he claimed to have spent 14 MONTHS adrift.
That is one tough sunofagun.... I need to read more of this guy’s story.
it’s a colleague-eat-colleague world
So call the one witness and see how the trial turns out. sheesh.
He has/had a book out in October.
Yeah, he could probably use the sales. Horrible experience. And I don’t see how these people have a case if there is no proof of a homicide, even if he did eat the other guy.
“ERRRRRRRPPP!!!”
6 was terrified of 7 when they were shipwrecked because 7,8,9.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Give a man a fisherman and he will eat for... a week or two? ;-)
Corpus delicti.
If I had to eat one of his colleagues it would have been Mary Ann.
Corpus dilectable.
In those circumstances, one does what one has to do to stay alive. Read “Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex” by Owen Chase.
or “In the Heart of the Sea” by Nathanial Philbric. Those guys were adrift for about 90 days.
As soon as I read the headline that opening song popped in my head.
His counter suit against the family for costs incurred for disposing of the body will not help him in court (burp).
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