Pacific Ocean Survivor Returns to El Salvador

A fisherman from El Salvador who said he spent 13 months adrift in the Pacific has arrived home. Jose Salvador Alvarenga tried to address reporters waiting at the San Salvador airport, but could only put his hands to his face, appearing to cry. Alvarenga says he tossed more than 10,000 kilometers across the Pacific in a small boat from Mexico before he washed ashore two weeks ago in the Marshall Islands. The 37-year-old castaway said he survived by eating raw fish, turtles and bird...

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