Posted on 02/03/2014 8:18:35 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan
The surviving fisherman was found disoriporting a bushy beard and clutching a can of Coke, a castaway who says he survived more than a year adrift in the Pacific Ocean arrived in the Marshall Islands capital Majuro on Monday.
A male nurse had to help the man previously identified as Jose Ivan down the gangplank of a police patrol boat after a 22-hour trip from the remote coral atoll where he washed ashore last week after apparently setting sail from Mexico on December 24, 2012.
About 1,000 curious onlookers crowded the dock for a glimpse of the long-haired fisherman, who smiled and waved briefly before he was whisked away for a medical check-up at Majuro Hospital.
The castaway told US ambassador Thomas Armbruster, who was acting as an interpreter for Marshall Islands authorities, that he was originally from El Salvador but had been living in Mexico for 15 years before his epic voyage.
And foreign ministry officials said he told them during a debriefing that he was a 37-year-old whose full name was Jose Salvador Albarengo.
He said he lived in Tapachula, near the Mexican border with Guatemala, and worked for a company named Camoronera Dela Costa.
Albarengo said he was on a shark-fishing expedition with a youth named Xiquel when strong winds blew them off course and they became lost.
Albarengo said the boy, described as 15- to 18-years old, died a few weeks into the ordeal because he could not eat raw bird meat.
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My exact thoughts...
Yes, I agree. He is actually fat, something wrong here.
I wonder if there is a site that has a globe with ocean currents. Correlating the two would give to us more info about whether or not his story might be legit.
As for his apparent extra weight.....the only think that I can think is that long periods of malnutrition can cause bloating.
It was only supposed to be a 3 hour tour...
I know what you mean
I think there might be a close correlation between ocean current temps and wind aloft
Did he ever meet Mary Ann?
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