Salvadoran Castaway to Visit Fishing Mate's Family in Chiapas This Week NBC News
go to original March 11, 2014

The castaway with an incredible story of spending more than a year adrift at sea will leave El Salvador for Mexico this week to visit the family of his fishing mate, who didn't survive the ordeal in the Pacific.

A lawyer for Jose Salvador Alvarenga said he and two relatives are scheduled to fly Friday to Mexico City and then travel to Chiapas, where he lived and worked for years.

The primary purpose of the four-day visit is to see the family of Ezequiel Cordoba, 24, who set out with Alvarenga on the ill-fated fishing trip in November 2012.

Alvarenga, 37, has said that after their boat was blown off course by a storm, he survived on raw fish, birds, turtles and his own urine but that the younger man couldn't stomach the food and died of starvation and thirst weeks later.

The two men promised that whoever made it to land would get word to the other's loved ones about what happened, he has said.

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