There he only has one chamber of his life jacket inflated, with the other one flapping in the breeze. In a later photo he has both chambers inflated. He didn’t have two life jackets; he had one life jacket with two chambers. The story about Kawasaki giving his life jacket to Puentes because one wouldn’t hold Puentes up is made-up.
The story of Kawasaki not being able to see any of the cushions he put out there seems to not be true either, because there was a cushion that was right there between Puentes and the main body of the plane when Puentes was filming by the end of the wing. Somebody must have been holding onto that cushion, or else maybe Puentes’ body itself kept the cushion from drifting away.