![]() ![]() Briefly, Alvarenga became a household name. ![]() The photo of the bearded fisherman shuffling ashore went viral. Several observers noted a similarity to the Tom Hanks character in the movie Cast Away. ![]() Alvarenga cracked a quick smile and waved to the cameras. Expecting a gaunt and bedridden victim, a ripple of disbelief went through the crowd. Dressed in a baggy brown sweatshirt that disguised his reedy torso, he disembarked from a police boat slowly but unaided. I was so hungry that I was eating my own fingernails, swallowing all the little pieces Salvador Alvarengaĭays later, Alvarenga faced the world’s press. But surviving in a vibrant world of wild animals, vivid hallucinations and extreme solitude did little to prepare him for the fact that he was about to become an international celebrity and an object of curiosity. Floating across the Pacific Ocean, watching the moon’s light ebb and flow for over a year, Alvarenga had battled loneliness, depression and bouts of suicidal thinking. ![]()
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