Real Life Cast Away found

[Truthseeker420]

The 'Miracle Man of the Pacific' - the fisherman who claimed he survived on turtle blood, raw fish and seagull flesh as he drifted helplessly for more than a year returned to civilization today to mounting questions over his ordeal.
Stumbling ashore today at a dock in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands, Jose Salvador Alvarenga managed a smile before telling MailOnline: 'I'm alive - I'm alive and I can't believe it.'
When asked about his ordeal he simply replied: 'I cannot remember much about my journey. It has all gone into one thought - the sea, the sea.'


Read more: Fisherman Jose Salvador Alvarenga claims to have survived 14 MONTHS adrift in Pacific | Mail Online
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Amazing !

 

[Truthseeker420]

No one finds this amazing that a man can live adrift at sea for over a year?

 

[waltky]

Castaway says faith helped him survive 13 months adrift in Pacific...

Faith and fish: Castaway recounts how he survived 13 months adrift in Pacific
Tue February 4, 2014 ~ "I thought, 'I am going to get out,'" he says in an interview with CNN; He says he considered killing himself when he ran out of food and water; Identified as Jose Salvador Alvarenga, he says he lived off turtles and rainwater while adrift; Mexico says he is an El Salvador national who was living in a Mexican state

A castaway who claims to have spent more than a year adrift in the Pacific Ocean says his faith in God kept him going through the ordeal. But there were times, he said, when he wanted to end it all. There were plenty of those bleak moments, he said: When he didn't have food and water. When a boy traveling with him starved to death. The man, calling himself Jose Salvador Alvarenga, was washed up last week in a heavily damaged boat on a remote coral atoll in the Marshall Islands. He claimed he had been living off fish and turtles he had caught and relying on rainwater, and sometimes his own urine, to drink.

Map: Drifter found in Pacific

He said he had been lost at sea for 13 months, after setting off from Mexico -- thousands of miles to the east. Many questions remain about how he could have lived on his small boat for so long as it drifted across the ocean. In an exclusive interview Tuesday, CNN asked Alvarenga how he survived his time at sea. He pointed upward and said, "God ... My faith in God." "I thought, 'I am going to get out,'" he said. "Get out, get out, get out."

But he also admitted to dark moments, saying he considered killing himself. "Twice I wanted to," he said, as he gestured slitting his throat. "I wanted to with a knife. When I didn't have water, food; I gave up and I grabbed a knife." But he didn't go through with the act, he said, because he was "scared." During his long period at sea, Alvarenga said he lost track of the date and the day of the week. He would follow the sun's path across the sky, he said, indicating the movement with his hands as he spoke. "(I didn't know) the date or the day, only the hours," he said. "Only when it was getting dark and when the light was coming out."

'We will have him back soon'

 

[editec]

That explains why I haven't seen him on Facebook.

 

[Truthseeker420]

His friend died. Did he survive by eating his friend?

 

[Mr. H.]

I saw a picture of him in the news. He looks fat and isn't sun burned.

 

[Truthseeker420]

I saw a picture of him in the news. He looks fat and isn't sun burned.

I don't know about the lack of sun burn but doctors say he organs are swollen.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

I think we will find out that this is a fraud.
Doctors were pointing out yesterday that there is simply no way he could get enough water into his system to digest the high-protein diet he claims to have lived on.
Nutrition specialist pointed out that he would have had to have had a MINIMUM of 2 quarts of water every single day. It is simply impossible as he had no saltwater conversion equipment, so he would have had to rely on water from rain.
His skin is in great shape, he is overweight....just simply not possible.

 

[Truthseeker420]

Can someone stay hydrated enough to live off of just drinking seagull's blood?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Oh and one more thing - he claimed to have been drinking his own urine.
This is possible - but only ONCE. You cannot continue to drink urine on a regular basis for any length of time whatsoever.

 

[Truthseeker420]

Oh and one more thing - he claimed to have been drinking his own urine.
This is possible - but only ONCE. You cannot continue to drink urine on a regular basis for any length of time whatsoever.

What if he drank urine,drank seagull blood and collected rain water on his boat?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Oh and one more thing - he claimed to have been drinking his own urine.
This is possible - but only ONCE. You cannot continue to drink urine on a regular basis for any length of time whatsoever.

What if he drank urine,drank seagull blood and collected rain water on his boat?

To the tune of a half gallon a day? At minimum?
Just not possible. No scurvy, no malnutrition, skin in great shape...all with just eating small scraps of live animals with no ability to cook them?
As one doctor pointed out, ocean rescues where people were stranded for just several weeks - they are always critically dehydrated, malnourished, skin lesions from sun exposure with urinary tract infections, digestive complications etc. etc. - they are in bad shape.
This guy looked like he just got off of a vacation.

 

[Truthseeker420]

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Exactly - he is not even tanned. And GAINED weight.
This is a fraud. And it will be reported that way before the week is out.

 

[rightwinger]

I suspect a Rosie Ruiz here with this guy just showing up with a tale to tell


The guy just weighs too much. If you are bloated, your arms and legs are still emaciated. Your skin is sunburned and abraded from salt water. A limited diet will affect your skin, teeth, joints

Guy is a fake

 

[Truthseeker420]

I suspect a Rosie Ruiz here with this guy just showing up with a tale to tell


The guy just weighs too much. If you are bloated, your arms and legs are still emaciated. Your skin is sunburned and abraded from salt water. A limited diet will affect your skin, teeth, joints

Guy is a fake

He was only gone for 14 months and there are reasons you whole body would swell. I'm going on what the doctors said.

 

[Mr. H.]

here's a recent story...

Yahoo!

Details of castaway's Marshalls arrival emerge