First images of the castaway who survived more than a year adrift in the Pacific

The castaway who claims to have survived more than a year adrift in the Pacific Ocean was transferred Monday to Majuro, capital of the Marshall Islands, after being rescued by a maritime patrol. "I'm alive and I can not believe it," said Jose Salvador Albarengo on landing in the capital of the South Pacific nation, reports AFP. Emaciated, with long hair and long beard, castaway, initially identified as Joseph Ivan, was rescued in the coral atoll of Ebon paragraph by a patrol boat of the local Navy. According Albarengo, originally from El Salvador, was able to survive many months drinking turtle blood was missing when rainwater and fish eating birds and hunted with your hands. Authorities in the Marshall Islands meanwhile reported that "the castaway was wearing only a ragged shorts" and that "his vessel had the appearance of having been in the water too long."

• 2014-02-03T17:02:13+00:00
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