Castaway José Salvador Alvarenga, who spent 13 months drifting across the Pacific, has flown out of the Marshall Islands to his home in El Salvador, to his wife and 14 years old daughter. "Thank you for everything the people of the Marshall Islands have done for me during my stay," the 37-year-old fisherman said through an interpreter. His trip back home was a quicker and more comfortable journey across the Pacific than the 12,500km (8,000 mile) sea journey which began when a fishing trip off the Mexican coast went awry in late 2012 – early 2013. Alvarenga says he stayed alive in his 7m (24ft) fibreglass boat on a diet of raw fish and bird flesh, with only turtle blood and his own urine to drink (when there was no rainwater) He said that his crewmate – named as 24-year-old Ezequiel Cordoba – could not stomach such foodstuffs and starved to death four months into the voyage.
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