Mexican Sailor Survives 8,000 Miles and 16 Months Adrift on the Pacific Ocean Daily Mail
go to original January 31, 2014

Miraculous survival: A man, believed to be called Jose Ivan, claims to have set off from Mexico for El Salvador in September 2012 but ended up travelling more than 8,000 miles to the Ebon Atoll. (MailOnline)

An emaciated man whose boat washed up on a remote Pacific atoll this week claims he has survived 16 months adrift on the Pacific.

The Spanish-speaking man believed to be named Jose Ivan was discovered by locals on Thursday when his 24-foot fibreglass boat with propellerless engines floated onto the reef at Ebon Atoll.

Ivan, who has long hair and beard, claims to have floated more than 12,500 kilometre (8,000 miles) from Mexico over the course of 16 months until he washed up on the tiny islands.

'His condition isn't good, but he's getting better,' Ola Fjeldstad, a Norwegian anthropology student doing research on Ebon, the southern most outpost of the Marshalls, told AFP by telephone.

Fjeldstad said Ivan, dressed only in a pair of ragged underpants, claims he left Mexico for El Salvador in September 2012 with a companion who died at sea several months ago.

Details of his survival are sketchy, Fjeldstad added, as Ivan only speaks Spanish.

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