Castaway claims he drifted 13 months in Pacific

Just today, a castaway was found on an atoll of the Marshall Islands, claiming he drifted at sea for 13 months straight. The mysterious castaway is Jose Ivan Alvarengo, a native of El Salvador that had been living in Mexico. Alvarengo tell that he and a teenage companion were out on a day-long fishing trip, when currents and a storm took them off course, and took one of their engines. 13 months later, he was found on the Marshall Islands' atoll, Ebon. In a hospital bed interview, he tells that he survived on fish, birds, and turtles he caught, and drinking rainwater. He said that his teenage companion died because he refused to eat raw birds, and no information is known about what happened to his body. If Alvarengo story is true, he would have traveled about 5,000 miles, wandering his way across the Pacific Ocean. This truly is an amazing feat of survival.