PANAMÁ YACHTING SERVICES
  • Selden Masts and Rigging
    • Sailing News
  • Latest News
  • Contact

Survivor of 16 month drift - more

2/3/2014

0 Comments

 
The sole survivor of 16 months drifting across the Pacific has been taken from Ebon Atoll to Majuro in the Marshall Islands.  He made the 22 hour journey from Ebon Atoll to Majuro in a police patrol boat under the care of a male nurse.  A crowd of 1000 gathered to see him step ashore.  

His name is Jose Salvador Albarengo.  A 37 yearold, originally from El Salvador, he had been living in Mexiso for some years. Jose set off to hunt sharks with a young lad aged 15 to 18 in late 2012.  Winds blew them off course and they became lost.  The lad survived only a few weeks because he could not eat raw bird meat. 

See: http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/south-pacific/9681652/Castaway-survives-year-adrift-in-Pacific-Ocean

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.


    Author  

    James - sailor, shipwright, surveyor with a good 60 or more years of experience with the sea.

    Rosalind - opinionated writer and organizer, whose life has been swamped by the world of sailing.

    Archives

    April 2020
    January 2015
    February 2014
    September 2013
    July 2013
    May 2013
    October 2012
    July 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012

    Categories

    All
    Americas Cup
    Boat Design
    Bodacious Dream
    Classic Wooden Boats
    Cooking With A Pressure Cooker
    Local Hazards
    Malaria
    Sail Training
    Survival Adrift
    The Kiwi 40fc Yacht
    Violation Of International Maritime Law
    Volvo Ocean Race

    RSS Feed

For All Your Sailing Needs! Panama Yachting Services: Surveys, Rigging, Masts, Repairs 
  • Selden Masts and Rigging
    • Sailing News
  • Latest News
  • Contact