Based in Santiago, Chile, and Manhattan, Franklin reports on Latin America. He also works with the team at Retro Report producing documentaries broadcast by The New York Times. Jonathan Franklin regularly reports for The Guardian, VICE, and Esquire. Based on dozens of hours of exclusive interviews with Alvarenga, his colleagues, search-and-rescue officials, the remote islanders who found him, and the medical team that saved his life, 438 Days is an unforgettable study of the resilience, will, ingenuity and determination required for one man to survive more than a year lost and adrift at sea. He claimed to have drifted from Mexico, a journey of some seven thousand miles.Ĥ38 Days is the first-ever account of one of the most amazing survival stories in modern times. He could barely speak and was unable to walk.
As gale force winds and ten-foot waves pummeled their small, open boat from all sides and nearly capsized them, captain Salvador Alvarenga and his crewmate cut away a two-mile-long fishing line and began a desperate dash through crashing waves as they sought the safety of port.įourteen months later, on January 30, 2014, Alvarenga, now a hairy, wild-bearded and half-mad castaway, washed ashore on a nearly deserted island on the far side of the Pacific. That night, a violent storm ambushed them as they were fishing eighty miles offshore. On November 17, 2012, a pair of fishermen left the coast of Mexico for a weekend fishing trip in the open Pacific. 438 days - An extraordinary true story of survival at seaĭescription: “The best survival book in a decade” (Outside magazine), 438 Days is the true story of the fisherman who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean.
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