438 days story5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Based on dozens of hours of interviews with Alvarenga and his colleagues, search and rescue officials, the medical team that saved his life and the remote islanders who nursed him back to normality, this is an epic tale of survival and one man's incredible story of beating the ultimate odds. Crawling ashore, he was saved by a local couple living in their own private castaway paradise. But Alvarenga developed a method of survival that kept his body and mind intact long enough for the Pacific Ocean to spit him up onto a remote palm-studded island. Alvarenga survived 438 days adrift in the Pacific Ocean, drifting 7000 miles from just off Mexico, to the Marshall Islands. He considered suicide on multiple occasions - including offering himself up to a pack of circling sharks. On January 30, 2014, he abandoned his boat and swam to shore, where he stumbled upon a beach house owned by a local couple. Not one stopped for the stranded fisherman. Three dozen cruise ships and container vessels passed nearby. Publisher Atria Books Publication Year 2016 Format Trade Paperback Language English Item Height 0.7in. ![]() ![]() ![]() When he was washed ashore on January 30th, 2014, he had drifted over 9,000 miles. 438 Days : an Extraordinary True Story of Survival AT Sea Item Length 8.4in. Alvarenga would not touch solid ground again for 14 months. The storm picked up and carried him West, deeper into the heart of the Pacific Ocean. A vicious storm killed his engine and the current dragged his boat out to sea. On 17th November, 2012, Salvador Alvarenga left the coast of Mexico for a two-day fishing trip. ![]()
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