December 7, 2015
Interview: Jonathan Franklin’s Extraordinary Survival Tale of a Castaway Lost at Sea for 438 Days
On November 17, 2012, Salvadoran fisherman Jos Salvador Alvarenga and a crewmate left the coast of Mexico for a weekend fishing trip. Eighty miles offshore, a brutal storm killed the engine and nearly capsized the boat, sweeping the two men and their small vessel far from land and civilization in the heart of the Pacific Ocean. That was the last anyone would see of them for 14 months.
