Lost Off the Coast of Mexico, Castaway Heads Home After Year at Sea Jonathan Pearlman, Majuro - The Telegraph
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Castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga describes his ordeal (The Telegraph)

A castaway who spent more than a year at sea before landing on a remote Pacific island has recounted his “incredible” voyage as he drifted for thousands of miles surviving on turtles, birds and hand-caught sharks.

Appearing bewildered after being told that he was in the Marshall Islands - a country he had never heard of - Jose Salvador Alvarenga, 37, a fisherman who set off from Mexico in December 2012, said his first words on spotting land were: “Oh, God”.

“I had just killed a bird to eat and saw some trees,” he told The Telegraph at a hospital in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands.

“I cried, ‘Oh God’. I got to land and had a mountain of sleep. In the morning I woke up and heard a rooster and saw chickens and saw a small house. I saw two native women screaming and yelling. I didn’t have any clothes – I was only in my underwear and they were ripped and torn.”

Despite his ordeal, Alvarenga appeared to be in a healthy condition when he arrived in Majura from the remote Ebon Atoll.

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