People Who Have Been Lost In The Wilderness And Lived To Tell Their Tales

Over A Year At Sea

In January 2014, a group of coconut farmers stumbled upon a man named José Salvador Alvarenga on the deserted Ebon Atoll shore, a part of the Marshall Islands. Having been blown off course during a fishing trip in Mexico, he was adrift on the Pacific Ocean for 13 months in a seven-meter boat. He had traveled over 5,000 miles until he finally reached land by eating fish, birds, turtles, and drinking urine, rainwater, and bird blood. He is the first person in recorded history to have ever survived in a small boat on the open ocean for more than a year.