{"id":13450,"date":"2024-07-24T19:47:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T19:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=13450"},"modified":"2024-07-24T19:47:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T19:47:35","slug":"man-who-was-lost-at-sea-for-438-days-sued-for-1000000-by-family-of-crewmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=13450","title":{"rendered":"Man who was lost at sea for 438 days sued for $1,000,000 by family of crewmate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jos\u00e9 Salvador Alvarenga went out on a two-day fishing trip, but ended up lost for 438 days<\/h2>\n

A man survived more than a year adrift at sea, only to return to land and find himself hit with a $1 million court case.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Jose Salvador Alvarenga and Ezequiel Cordoba set out from\u00a0Mexico<\/a>\u00a0for a two day fishing trip together in November 2012 they could have no idea of the ordeal that awaited them.<\/p>\n

What had intended to be a two-day trip turned into an ordeal lasting some 15 months and which would claim the\u00a0life<\/a>\u00a0of the 22-year-old Cordoba.<\/p>\n

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The boat that the two castaways were stranded on. (STR\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

After setting sail on an eight-meter boat, the pair were hit by a violent storm which knocked them off course, destroyed their communication systems, and knocked their\u00a0supplies<\/a>\u00a0overboard.<\/p>\n

The final words that Alvarenga sent to land before being cut off were radioed to the boat’s owner, saying: “Come now, I am really getting ****** out here.”<\/p>\n

Cordoba had panicked according to Alvarenga, and tried to throw himself overboard where\u00a0sharks<\/a>\u00a0were already circling.<\/p>\n

For several months the pair were able to subsist by catching fish and birds, as well as drinking rainwater and turtle blood.<\/p>\n

Tragically, Cordoba died after eating a bird that had a poisonous snake in its stomach, but not before making Alvarenga promise not to eat his corpse.<\/p>\n

Alvarenga claims that he kept Cordoba’s body with him for six days.<\/p>\n

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Alvarenga came ashore again in the Marshall Islands. (GIFF JOHNSON\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

He said he would even talk to it, until he realised that he was losing his mind and threw the body overboard.<\/p>\n

He told The Telegraph: “I could see my death was going to be very, very slow.”<\/p>\n

By a miracle Alvarenga survived, being washed up in the Marshall Islands in January 2014, some 15 months after he went missing.<\/p>\n

A visit to Cordoba’s mother Rosalia Rios went badly wrong, and then things only got worse when Alvarenga’s former lawyer\u00a0sued<\/a>\u00a0him for $1 million after he signed a book deal.<\/p>\n

Not only that, but Cordoba’s family also launched a $1 million legal action against Alvarenga alleging that he had engaged in cannibalism.<\/p>\n

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The family of Cordoba launched a $1,000,000 lawsuit against Alvarenga<\/cite><\/div>\n

Alvarenga strongly denied eating Cordoba, claiming they had made a pact not to eat each other if one of them died.<\/p>\n

They also demanded 50 percent of the proceeds of Alvarenga’s book, called\u00a0438 Days<\/em>, which was published in October 2015.<\/p>\n

Ricardo Cucalon, Mr Alvarenga’s new lawyer, said: “I believe that this demand is part of the pressure from this family to divide the proceeds of royalties.<\/p>\n

“Many believe the book is making my client a rich man, but what he will earn is much less than people think.”<\/p>\n

Ultimately, only Alvarenga himself will ever know for certain what happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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