Plur307 Alright? So? I was referring to the people who allege that his survival based upon caloric intake is impossible. And that somehow he was unable to survive on the food resources that were available. Given that we have lots of people who have survived even longer at sea, the claims are kind of odd.
+Amy Yeah, I've written several books on nutrition and I'm a lead scientist in a major project involving molecular biology. Pretty sure that makes me qualified.
hsucks And? I'm sorry, I'm just kinda curious about where you're going with this is all. I restate my position (Especially since I haven't actually been to this videos page since... December 25th 2014) that his survival is not unheard of, further, that given the vast records of people who have survived similar situations with similar conditions, it is not outside any realm of reason that he survived, if not maintained his weight. What I won't rule out is the possibility of cannibalism. However, that is well outside the scope of my discussions intent. What bugs me is people coming up with bullshit reasons and saying "He's a fake because he's not skin and bones" and "He couldn't survive at sea" Take for instance the Essex. The ship wrecked in November, about 4-5 months the crew were eventually rescued. They had fewer resources than their modern counterpart in the video, and many did not survive. Given this example (Though short) I find it puzzling when people claim that him surviving is impossible therefore he faked it.
If you read the full explanation, it was the boys mind that betrayed him. They ate jellyfish, birds, fish, turtles, but the younger man (who was actually 22 years old), ate a bird that ingested a poisonous snake. Jose said that it made Cordoba (the young man) sick for 2 days, and after that, he refused to eat any raw bird meat, only fresh turtle meat (which was much more sparse). He had already mentally started shutting down hours in to the ordeal, and was suicidal a few weeks in to their drift. The food poisoning was the last excuse to stop eating and waste away. Jose actually had to convince him many times before that to eat something and not give up. After Cordoba died, Jose was devastated and he said mentally, the ordeal was much worse after that facing it alone :(
+Adam Laimana exactly!! and why would he kill his only companion, just for food? Im sure he feared being alone more than anything else. They had very little concerns with food, they were able to catch enough to sustain them at most times. and youre so right, the kid had lost his mind!
I believe more in the other theory, they fought, he killed the other guy, went hiding for a year in an island. His behaviour when he was rescue was weird like hiding something, his body is healthy for being more than a year in the sea, I think he was in the sea but not 1 year, he was like 2 months maybe
If they were stuck at sea, how would he sail around for a year "hiding out". Or say he found an island to live on for 10 months, how would he then sail across the entire pacific in a broken boat, all the way to the Marshall Islands? As incredulous as his story is, these other theories make zero sense.
Adam Laimana his boat was ok, they fought, he killed the other guy, uses his boat to reach an island and hide for a year then weeks later the boat brokes, kid of that the story, in spanish there are some reports that he killed a guy in El Salvador then he went to Mexico hiding from people who wanted revenge and kill him, it seems like his past is some kind of obscure let me put the link
I've read his biography by Johnathon Franklin, you should read it, everything will make a lot more sense. Pull out a map and look at where the Marshall Islands are, even in your theory, he would still have to drift thousands of miles across the pacific, lol.
I’m sure anyone, vegan or not, who is put in a survival situation will eat whatever they can... I do not believe the teenager died naturally, however who am I to judge?
I'm vegan and I'm also deadly allergic to fish and anything from the sea :-(.. My only option would be to pray to the Lord to have manna fall from the sky
Pretty much. But, I still scroll through to find that really funny comment. There is always at least one or two. The rest are just pathetic attempts at being witty but just end up sad or unoriginal.
I don't believe he ate his companion. If you actually read his book, you will realize that this man actually had immense practical knowledge for surviving due to his fishing background, familiarity with "reading" the sea, optimistic and strong personality, faith, and his incredible adaptations with his hunting instinct. Just because it is difficult for most people to imagine him surviving without eating his companion- because it is difficult for YOU to imagine surviving that long without eating a person- does not automatically mean that he ate his companion to survive. Seriously, I doubt that a person could survive just on 1 dead human body for more than a year at sea, through storms and all other factors. People need to look at the big picture here. After all this man has gone through, it's sad that most people just assume this.
007 373 5963 If you read the book, you will see exactly how he did it. He was very adaptive and "street" smart (or "sea" smart 😉). In a brief summary, he cleaned out one end of the boat and whenever there was rain, he used all his salvaged water/soda bottles (lots of them floating around in the sea that he collected) and emptied supply bottles to collect the water and ration it over the course of days. He also drank turtle blood (similar to how others in the area survived). He also found a large empty container floating as rubbish and used that to collect rain water, too. He focused all his energy on hunting birds and fish using makeshift devices and his own bare hands and ingenuity, and collected and rationed his water supplies. This also prevented him from going crazy, it distracted his mind and helped keep him alive.
I am also a very skeptical person and after reading his book and the news reports and investigations, I am convinced he went through this entire ordeal. It is difficult for us to imagine a person of such strength and adaptability, but entirely possible.
@@SarahSakura Thats actually insane. I cant imagine myself in that situation I feel like I would perish. He must’ve been well prepared for that happened to him, to have all those skills to make it that long.
Chris Foster he claims he threw him overboard. but if you were stranded in the middle of the ocean for 13 MONTHS would you blame him if he did eat his friends? his friend refused to eat and died. atleast he didnt murder him...
This guy is Salvadoran, we're very resilient and will eat almost anything to stay alive. Anyone who has been poor in El Salvador knows his story is plausible.
Lol it always has to be a "its because hes American or hes Salvadorian or hes German" nationality has nothing to do with it whats the difference between a guy from Guatemala or el Salvador or Mexico all of central America used to be part of the Mexican empire...you know what else comes from el Salvador gangs so does that make him part of ms 13😂?
@@noelramirez1551 MS 13 actually comes from the US! Being part of something for a few years doesn't make us the same, tell that to most Mexicans and they'll laugh in your face.
As crazy as it sounds thats usually how it happens. The fact that all is lost is enough to push anyone to survive you just need to be mentally powerful enough
I find it so interesting how people say "he doesnt look skinny or sunburned yea hes lying" they sound so convinced hes lying. People need to learn that theres been survivors in situations where its deemed impossible to survive. You'd be surprised
Do you know how much you'd have to catch of raw seafood to actually maintain, or even gain weight??? There's approx 90 calories in a .5lb fish. His weight looks approx 165lbs-175lbs meaning he needs to eat over 1650-1750 calories to gain weight and that's with NO physical activity. That's approx 20+fish per day...I call bullshit on this story.
@@rachelelabbady3399 that assumes a regular person with regular daily activities. He was essentially sedentary for a year. His maintenance caloric requirements are significantly lower. Please don't act like you know what's going on. Cause you don't. And you spouting off uninformed opinions like this just give you away.
@@StormsandSaugeye no, actually it doesn't include regular activities. You take whatever weight you are and add a "0" and that is your RESTING, doing NOTHING calorie burning rate to maintain just your organs. Any activity past that, even walking to the fridge, burns extra calories. So again, I call BULLSHIT! I'm a nutritionist, so I don't have to act like I know about caloric gain/burn. You however, are showing just how little you know about it.
If he ate the other guy then how did he keep the meat fresh?You can't eat an entire body one meal.He would have several weeks of meat in a small boat to keep fresh.In the middle of the Pacific Ocean,no way.
***** I don't know.You may be right.When I was in the Marines I went through survival training.A lot of people don't know that the Marines and Navy are really one unit split in half.Some say we are kissing cousins as a joke.I went through that area on a Navy supply ship.I know that the water is about the same temperature as the surrounding air.But only the first five feet or so.Then it gets cold the deeper you go.So yes you may be right about using the body to attract more fish so he could eat the fish. As far as the body being in water all the time then it would soak up the salt water and I was told in training that saltwater would decompose a body almost three times as fast as fresh water.Now if the teenage boy wouldn't eat and died because of it then a person has to wonder if the guy had a couple of big meals off the boy and then cut him up in strips,store it somehow and use him for fish bait. If somebody is too stupid to eat and dies because of it then the moral question would be,Is it wrong to eat the guy and then cut the remaining flesh off and use it for fish bait?Would that be wrong? I was thinking that maybe he found a small island,eat and stayed in good shape and then made a dash for the Marshall Islands.Kwajalein,I think is the largest island.They are well over a hundred small islands near and around the main island of Kwajalein.That makes me think that maybe he did a little island hopping. Also Cody the survival expert is wrong about drinking your urine.It does have salt in it but going through survival training they made us drink one full 12 oz glass of your own urine.It taste horrible as hell but if your in bad shape then you will drink it.Sorry,I didn't mean to write a book:)
sure. an entire year out in the sun drenched sea and he has that complexion? Thank god he had a 40 gallon drum of sun screen. and apparently he weighed 1,300 Lbs at the start.
no he is from Mexico his name is Salvador I even saw it yesterday in the TV they were interviewing him in Univision (Univision is a company in Spanish)
Alondra Lara es.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Salvador_Alvarenga ..stop it,you making a fool of yourself his name is José Salvador Alvarenga and his from ahuachapan,el salvador..look at it then you see how dumb you have been..
OK why u call me dumb?and no I'm not making a fool of my self because I'm just saying what I know and what people told me OK?but really why your trying to make enemy's by calling people words and next time keep your NEGATIVE things to YOURSELF because your not gonna like the life u have with enemys
It's a no no when hydration is at risk because it's salty, but if youre not in danger of dehydrating it can help to reabsorb nutrients your body missed the first time.
he looks surprisingly healthy for someone being adrift for 13 months... something sounds fishy here.. so his mate refused to eat food and died after 4 weeks.. yet he somehow survived for 13 months looking like he got out of a hot steam bath after having a feast from a bbq party..
well if so, they were fishermen and most likely they knew how and were able to catch a lot of fish and keep it in fridge as reserve so no need to kill each other. but of course he is the only one who knows the truth.
Reminder that all of your “something’s not adding up’s” over the past decade have fizzled out into nothing, just like all the fake news you’ve blindly believed.
@@Recipeswithaleezaa Do you know how much you'd have to catch of raw seafood to actually maintain, or even gain weight??? There's approx 90 calories in a .5lb fish. His weight looks approx 165lbs-175lbs meaning he needs to eat over 1650-1750 calories to gain weight and that's with NO physical activity. That's approx 20+fish per day...I call bullshit on this story.
I think that he killed the other teen and then ate him. It's easy to say the teen refused to eat and died after 4 monthts. He could of killed the teen the first week and spent the next 12-13 months eating him and thinking of a reason for why he died
I don't mean to be disrespectful if his story is true but he doesn't look emaciated as would be expected (unless he has been eating a lot since his return) and as for his young companion it sounds ominous...could he have constituted a source of food?
at first i was very skeptical , thats a long time at sea floating on a raft , water would have been a big problem and food as well nevermind eating raw stuff , i don't know of any place that serves Seagull on the Menu , this must have been a Terrifying ordeal at night in the middle of the Sea or Ocean , Sharks would've been on my mind and Monsters of the Deep , he must've Prayed and God was Merciful , its a Miracle in itself that he lived to tell the tale
Does a personal trainer need to be fit to understand what it takes for his clients to be fit? No. Is a father not able to understand his daughter because he was never a woman? No. Do you need to have been suicidal to aid someone who wants to kill themselves. No! Try to realize the stupidity of your statement.
IMO the best people to survive on a raft with no food are the fat or muscular ones because they can draw upon body resources when starvation kicks in. In effect they are still eating when someone with less fat or muscle isn't.The skinny people would soon die no matter how tough they are. I have no idea if this is medically proven but it seems to make sense.
I'm alittle skeptical about this story. He looks well Nourished and Hydrated, and his hair isn't matted like you would expect after 13 months at sea, not to mention his skin, the suns radiation would have caused alot of damage even if he has in the shade most of the time. Salty air would be heavy on his hair and skin ... I know, I've lived in a beach town and know what the sun and salt can do !!!.
How does a Salvadoran man go missing while fishing and then pops up in a corner of the Marshall islands? a lot of these skeptics are "well I could never do that so it must not be true".
Belief in a higher power, "a deity," saved him ? Contributed to his particular mindset and thus his survival, but it's not a necessity. An atheist with the resourcefulness and strength of will of this guy could likewise have survived.
There is NO WAY a human refuses to eat when he is on the edge to die. I heard of people eating their shoes when they starving. He killed and eat his friend to survive. But the story would not sound good on that way so he lies.
Would have to see the size of his fishing vessel and if it had a cabin. No protection from the sun there's no way , this guys telling tall tales. He looks very healthy for someone being at sea for a year on a small craft with no provisions.
This guy doesn't look like he was out to sea for 13 months. I've see people worse for wear that spent only half a day out at sea. He looks well fed and no signs of sunburn.
Everybody that thinks he ate the kid then answer this.How did he keep the meat fresh?The heat in the Pacific Ocean would rot that kid out in a few days.It would become unbearable to eat him.Even if he could get past the smell and taste you are not eating fresh meat.It is rotting germ infested meat that would make a healthy man sick and die.People that have eat other people to stay alive always were in a very cold place not a 110F hot as hell situation.Also one man cannot eat another in one meal.At best he may be able to eat off a dead body three times but then all you have is a rotting piece of filth thats going to make you sick if you continue.
Eddie Hayes "people that had to eat other people were always in very cold places" , Wrong. Let me guess, you made that up after you watched that movie of the dudes that crashed in the cold mountain and assumed that only people trapped in cold places eat others?
Eddie Hayes no you didn't watch the movie or no you disagree claiming that people have only ever eaten people in the very cold? You are on public record claiming that people only eat others when its very cold, lol,,, your point was "any dead animal including humans does not keep more than a day or two at most in hot weather before spoiling" i always agreed with that point, i just thought your comment about the very cold being the only time people have eaten other people was funny as hell.
I just saw a documentary of a guy who was lost at sea for only 76 days and he was wasting away and was 100 pounds and skin and bones when rescued but this guy looks like he didn’t lose any weight after over a year
Question: wheres the boat? This area is monitored by many military aircraft. Plus his face would be serious burned or darker. Plus the salty air would do more damage to the skin.
Stranded survivor: Comon man eat something. Companion: I do not want to eat this nasty stuff. Stranded survivor: Fine then, can I eat you? *THE REST IS HISTORY*
I'm pretty sure I could rig up a makeshift water distilling apparatus if I was lost at sea and had nothing better to do. You could heat water with sunlight and collect the water vapor so it condenses and runs into a separate container. You don't have to get it boiling hot. It would be slow and tedious but what else do you have to do all day?
Siedler Joe I've rigged up distillation setups both in real survival camping trips and in chemistry labs where I work full time as a scientist. So by all means explain to me how you can't: 1. place salt water in a sealed container, place it in the sun 2. have a tube of some kind run out of the top of the container 3. wrap tube in cloth 4. keep cloth damp so that the phase change of evaporation cools the tube 5. Have the tube drip into a collection container Before you say it won't work consider I have done it several times and it does indeed work. Yes it would be slow. But when you are trapped on a boat adrift at sea for a year what else do you have to do with your time? The speed depends on how hot you can get the water and how cold you can get the condensation coil.
Plur307 They problem i think is how slow it is. It takes too long for that process to occur if it is to be relied on for hydration. A better solution would be to capture as much rainwater as possible using those materials instead. Or set up a water filtration system with sand charcoal etc. Either way, problems occur and drinkin your piss is always on the table. Interesting idea though. If i was lost at sea on a fishing boat id probably give it all a try. It all depends on how many resources he had with him on the boat
Was this the guy they found out later lied about the length of time he was lost at sea? Or am I confusing him with someone else? I am a wee bit skeptical about his story...
Who doesnt believe that other guy refused to eat, watch series at youtube "shouldnt be alive" where people talk about similar experiences and what they have been through while drifting in the ocean. It helps to put thing in perspective
For those saying he ate his companion, did he eat him over a few days or weeks? He had no fridge and wasn’t in the Andes snow capped mountains. How long would the body be edible in the hot sun? He was lost for 13 months. This was not crucial to his survival even if he did.
As per the limited details provided in this video: I've got a hypothesis that he killed his friend, then went undercover and after a year came to some island and said he was lost.
MightyForSure Why so? Because they happen to eat a lot? That doesn't equate mental weakness. For some people this may be true, but it's certainly not true in all cases
he totally ate his companion
he didn't
He didn't they did a lie detector and he was 98.9 % saying the truth
maybe he only ate 1.2% of his body weight lol
+ELC Xoxo I think lie dectectors tell lies
+ELC Xoxo lie detectors don't work lmao
It's always funny reading comments to videos like this. Suddenly everyone becomes dieticians, molecular biologists, and nutritionists.
+Amy Well I actually am a published molecular biologist so...
Plur307 Alright? So?
I was referring to the people who allege that his survival based upon caloric intake is impossible. And that somehow he was unable to survive on the food resources that were available.
Given that we have lots of people who have survived even longer at sea, the claims are kind of odd.
+Amy Yeah, I've written several books on nutrition and I'm a lead scientist in a major project involving molecular biology. Pretty sure that makes me qualified.
hsucks And? I'm sorry, I'm just kinda curious about where you're going with this is all. I restate my position (Especially since I haven't actually been to this videos page since... December 25th 2014) that his survival is not unheard of, further, that given the vast records of people who have survived similar situations with similar conditions, it is not outside any realm of reason that he survived, if not maintained his weight.
What I won't rule out is the possibility of cannibalism. However, that is well outside the scope of my discussions intent. What bugs me is people coming up with bullshit reasons and saying "He's a fake because he's not skin and bones" and "He couldn't survive at sea"
Take for instance the Essex. The ship wrecked in November, about 4-5 months the crew were eventually rescued. They had fewer resources than their modern counterpart in the video, and many did not survive. Given this example (Though short) I find it puzzling when people claim that him surviving is impossible therefore he faked it.
well i did study at coney island clown college so i do know my stuff.
If you read the full explanation, it was the boys mind that betrayed him. They ate jellyfish, birds, fish, turtles, but the younger man (who was actually 22 years old), ate a bird that ingested a poisonous snake. Jose said that it made Cordoba (the young man) sick for 2 days, and after that, he refused to eat any raw bird meat, only fresh turtle meat (which was much more sparse). He had already mentally started shutting down hours in to the ordeal, and was suicidal a few weeks in to their drift. The food poisoning was the last excuse to stop eating and waste away. Jose actually had to convince him many times before that to eat something and not give up. After Cordoba died, Jose was devastated and he said mentally, the ordeal was much worse after that facing it alone :(
+Adam Laimana exactly!! and why would he kill his only companion, just for food? Im sure he feared being alone more than anything else. They had very little concerns with food, they were able to catch enough to sustain them at most times. and youre so right, the kid had lost his mind!
I believe more in the other theory, they fought, he killed the other guy, went hiding for a year in an island. His behaviour when he was rescue was weird like hiding something, his body is healthy for being more than a year in the sea, I think he was in the sea but not 1 year, he was like 2 months maybe
If they were stuck at sea, how would he sail around for a year "hiding out". Or say he found an island to live on for 10 months, how would he then sail across the entire pacific in a broken boat, all the way to the Marshall Islands? As incredulous as his story is, these other theories make zero sense.
Adam Laimana his boat was ok, they fought, he killed the other guy, uses his boat to reach an island and hide for a year then weeks later the boat brokes, kid of that the story, in spanish there are some reports that he killed a guy in El Salvador then he went to Mexico hiding from people who wanted revenge and kill him, it seems like his past is some kind of obscure let me put the link
I've read his biography by Johnathon Franklin, you should read it, everything will make a lot more sense. Pull out a map and look at where the Marshall Islands are, even in your theory, he would still have to drift thousands of miles across the pacific, lol.
This person is an inspiration for millions of humans. His story has a lesson. Never loose hope and always struggle in your life
lose
Indeed.
TRUE because the only ones who loose at the end if you didn't gave up, are your back stabbers
@@Cherryboddulose not loose
Imagine being lost at sea for a year and ending up in North Korea
He would be glad to end up anywhere at that point even DPRK would be a god send
The North Koreans would eat him. :'(
Lol immediate labor camp
I would paddle back out to sea or south to the real Korea.
Beats dyin' I guess
Thank God he wasn't vegan.
im vegan and i wouldve eaten fish and stuff
I’m sure anyone, vegan or not, who is put in a survival situation will eat whatever they can... I do not believe the teenager died naturally, however who am I to judge?
@@TatsByTaco of course dude fish is delicious af. It's not like we're vegan cuz meat not delicious haha
I'm vegan and I'm also deadly allergic to fish and anything from the sea :-(.. My only option would be to pray to the Lord to have manna fall from the sky
He wasn't also a cannibal
the comment section is always cancer
Pretty much. But, I still scroll through to find that really funny comment. There is always at least one or two. The rest are just pathetic attempts at being witty but just end up sad or unoriginal.
Kascio GG was this an attempt at a joke? that was terrible and cringe i see what the man is saying
Oh... the other dude died because he refused to eat? Lol pretty sure he ate him.
+warfl4g I know right a dead man can't lo He looks a little chubby for someone that's been lost at sea for so long
El Jay Was the other survivors name "whale"?
DP Surfer wtf is with the hate bro, i'd eat him too lol.
+warfl4g true, to stay alive you do anything!
Yeah who would refuse to eat fish to survive!
I don't believe he ate his companion. If you actually read his book, you will realize that this man actually had immense practical knowledge for surviving due to his fishing background, familiarity with "reading" the sea, optimistic and strong personality, faith, and his incredible adaptations with his hunting instinct. Just because it is difficult for most people to imagine him surviving without eating his companion- because it is difficult for YOU to imagine surviving that long without eating a person- does not automatically mean that he ate his companion to survive. Seriously, I doubt that a person could survive just on 1 dead human body for more than a year at sea, through storms and all other factors. People need to look at the big picture here. After all this man has gone through, it's sad that most people just assume this.
Sonoko Sian ya but the one thing I don't believe is how did he drink water, u can only go 3 days without it
007 373 5963 If you read the book, you will see exactly how he did it. He was very adaptive and "street" smart (or "sea" smart 😉). In a brief summary, he cleaned out one end of the boat and whenever there was rain, he used all his salvaged water/soda bottles (lots of them floating around in the sea that he collected) and emptied supply bottles to collect the water and ration it over the course of days. He also drank turtle blood (similar to how others in the area survived). He also found a large empty container floating as rubbish and used that to collect rain water, too. He focused all his energy on hunting birds and fish using makeshift devices and his own bare hands and ingenuity, and collected and rationed his water supplies. This also prevented him from going crazy, it distracted his mind and helped keep him alive.
I am also a very skeptical person and after reading his book and the news reports and investigations, I am convinced he went through this entire ordeal. It is difficult for us to imagine a person of such strength and adaptability, but entirely possible.
@@SarahSakura Thats actually insane. I cant imagine myself in that situation I feel like I would perish.
He must’ve been well prepared for that happened to him, to have all those skills to make it that long.
People are clowns! A dead body on the boat for weeks decomposing is not possible
"I lived on a diet of human....errr I mean fish and turtles"
Yep, where is his tan? How do spend a year on the ocean and not get tanned?
I want my baby back baby back baby back ribs .
At minimum he killed the guy to not have to share the food.
Mama Voudou he had a jacket to cover himself from the sun🤦♀️
Zed's Dead can you stop
He ate that teenager.
Chris Foster he claims he threw him overboard. but if you were stranded in the middle of the ocean for 13 MONTHS would you blame him if he did eat his friends? his friend refused to eat and died. atleast he didnt murder him...
His friend "refused to eat". That's what I'd say too haha.
/watch?v=Rlv4hk3hZ14
Chris Foster he ate a bird that had got bitten by a poisonous snake
black tar heroin No such thing as a poisonous snake.
If he ate his partner I would understand. When you haven’t had food in weeks your brain does some weird shit.
This guy is Salvadoran, we're very resilient and will eat almost anything to stay alive. Anyone who has been poor in El Salvador knows his story is plausible.
U could be resilient all u want but if there’s nowhere to drink water all that resilience will go out the window
@@Clearview718 you can drink rain water and you own piss
His friends meat wouldn’t have lasted for a year
Lol it always has to be a "its because hes American or hes Salvadorian or hes German" nationality has nothing to do with it whats the difference between a guy from Guatemala or el Salvador or Mexico all of central America used to be part of the Mexican empire...you know what else comes from el Salvador gangs so does that make him part of ms 13😂?
@@noelramirez1551 MS 13 actually comes from the US! Being part of something for a few years doesn't make us the same, tell that to most Mexicans and they'll laugh in your face.
Hours turned into days , Days turned into weeks , weeks turned into months and then he stopped thinking , so he survived.
As crazy as it sounds thats usually how it happens. The fact that all is lost is enough to push anyone to survive you just need to be mentally powerful enough
I find it so interesting how people say "he doesnt look skinny or sunburned yea hes lying" they sound so convinced hes lying. People need to learn that theres been survivors in situations where its deemed impossible to survive. You'd be surprised
Do you know how much you'd have to catch of raw seafood to actually maintain, or even gain weight??? There's approx 90 calories in a .5lb fish. His weight looks approx 165lbs-175lbs meaning he needs to eat over 1650-1750 calories to gain weight and that's with NO physical activity. That's approx 20+fish per day...I call bullshit on this story.
@@rachelelabbady3399 that assumes a regular person with regular daily activities. He was essentially sedentary for a year. His maintenance caloric requirements are significantly lower.
Please don't act like you know what's going on. Cause you don't. And you spouting off uninformed opinions like this just give you away.
@@StormsandSaugeye no, actually it doesn't include regular activities. You take whatever weight you are and add a "0" and that is your RESTING, doing NOTHING calorie burning rate to maintain just your organs. Any activity past that, even walking to the fridge, burns extra calories. So again, I call BULLSHIT! I'm a nutritionist, so I don't have to act like I know about caloric gain/burn. You however, are showing just how little you know about it.
@@rachelelabbady3399 and again your very LINK refutes you.
@@rachelelabbady3399your comment makes one hundred percent sense, I totally agree 💯
0:45 ''Row row row my boat''?
DarkCreatorn hahahahhahahhahah
He was just saying hello over and over, he was probably telling them what he did when he got castaway, him trying to get contact via radio
He was saying "Patron, Patron, Patron, Patron." which means "God, God, God, God."
It did almost sound like that at first though lol
lmao, sounds like it yea?
Hahahw
13 months and still overweight? I call bullshit!
All Aspects he lost 40 pounds
Only 40 pounds
If you look at the pictures of him stepping of the boat his legs are very small. The interview is made long after he was found/rescued.
He looks like the guy from Jumanji
Dominic Hamilton don't he 😂
Rip Robin Williams
he looks nothing like Denzel Washington
Dominic Hamilton , Yes ,Robin Williams
Dominic Hamilton that’s what I was thinking 😂😂😂😂😂
Wonder if he ate the other guy who died?
Or if he killed the other guy to survive
This is my favorite comment ever
Of course he did..Legend of the sea..
If he ate the other guy then how did he keep the meat fresh?You can't eat an entire body one meal.He would have several weeks of meat in a small boat to keep fresh.In the middle of the Pacific Ocean,no way.
***** I don't know.You may be right.When I was in the Marines I went through survival training.A lot of people don't know that the Marines and Navy are really one unit split in half.Some say we are kissing cousins as a joke.I went through that area on a Navy supply ship.I know that the water is about the same temperature as the surrounding air.But only the first five feet or so.Then it gets cold the deeper you go.So yes you may be right about using the body to attract more fish so he could eat the fish.
As far as the body being in water all the time then it would soak up the salt water and I was told in training that saltwater would decompose a body almost three times as fast as fresh water.Now if the teenage boy wouldn't eat and died because of it then a person has to wonder if the guy had a couple of big meals off the boy and then cut him up in strips,store it somehow and use him for fish bait.
If somebody is too stupid to eat and dies because of it then the moral question would be,Is it wrong to eat the guy and then cut the remaining flesh off and use it for fish bait?Would that be wrong?
I was thinking that maybe he found a small island,eat and stayed in good shape and then made a dash for the Marshall Islands.Kwajalein,I think is the largest island.They are well over a hundred small islands near and around the main island of Kwajalein.That makes me think that maybe he did a little island hopping.
Also Cody the survival expert is wrong about drinking your urine.It does have salt in it but going through survival training they made us drink one full 12 oz glass of your own urine.It taste horrible as hell but if your in bad shape then you will drink it.Sorry,I didn't mean to write a book:)
Appears quite hefty to have been in survival mode on the ocean for a year plus. He likely ate more than he said he ate.
Maybe 13 days , not 13 months..he made it up to be on tv
VSCO girl: save the turtles
Interviewer: He used his knife to eat turtles
Fish, turtles and urine is just breakfast for Bear Grylls.
LaRusso bear was caught as fraudster
LaRusso he ate dinners during breaks of taping
That and buffet at the hotel he stayed at...
LaRusso stores, orange juice and lying is just breakfast for bear grylls
Lol Bear Grylls was eating gourmet meals
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sure. an entire year out in the sun drenched sea and he has that complexion? Thank god he had a 40 gallon drum of sun screen. and apparently he weighed 1,300 Lbs at the start.
I wrote lyrics in a song for my band about the story of this guy, very inspiring and courageous how he managed to survive for so long!
He Is from El Salvador, Not from Mexico
Franco Gutierrez americans...
eh we si era de mexico, ah espera habla ingles :v
eh men it was from mexico no from el salvador
hes not a mexican man..hes actually from El Salvador fishing /working in mexico
no he is from Mexico his name is Salvador I even saw it yesterday in the TV they were interviewing him in Univision (Univision is a company in Spanish)
Alondra Lara es.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Salvador_Alvarenga ..stop it,you making a fool of yourself his name is José Salvador Alvarenga and his from ahuachapan,el salvador..look at it then you see how dumb you have been..
OK why u call me dumb?and no I'm not making a fool of my self because I'm just saying what I know and what people told me OK?but really why your trying to make enemy's by calling people words and next time keep your NEGATIVE things to YOURSELF because your not gonna like the life u have with enemys
Alondra Lara ok but you were wrong..sorry if i called you names..
Yea I kinda did a little research on that... and its ok and I'm sorry for trying to correct u
He certainly isnt malnourished. After the food and water ran out, he survived on pure thoughts and the will to survive? Yeah, I dont think so.
Hes a bloody legend
He has a permanently lost at sea look
Wait... drinking piss is a no-no? Is Bear Grylls lying to us??
I did it cuz I thought it was cool too...
It's a no no when hydration is at risk because it's salty, but if youre not in danger of dehydrating it can help to reabsorb nutrients your body missed the first time.
Dark Chimera bear grills eats steaks behind the camera, :) nothing is real on tv:)
I think it becomes harmful if you do it more than one or two times back to back without any other source of hydration.
Dark Chimera think I’ll listen to the natives over the wannabe caveman lol
How was he not skinny and sunburnt to a crisp?
this guy is gonna have to put up with Wilson jokes for the rest of his life...
Wilson jokes?
Reference to the movie Castaway where Tom Hanks befriends a volley ball called Wilson.
Watch the start of the youtube clip -_-
If he can survive more than a year stranded out at sea, I'm sure he'll do fine with some jokes.
@@NoFuckingHandlesLeft That was a base ball I am sure
And the next taco he ate was the best taco he has ever had. I love tacos.
When he got back the thing he wanted most was tortillas.
Is it possible that he went all that way without hitting strong storms?
he looks surprisingly healthy for someone being adrift for 13 months... something sounds fishy here.. so his mate refused to eat food and died after 4 weeks.. yet he somehow survived for 13 months looking like he got out of a hot steam bath after having a feast from a bbq party..
You all are forgetting something important, HE HAD A PORTABLE FRIDGE THERE.
well if so, they were fishermen and most likely they knew how and were able to catch a lot of fish and keep it in fridge as reserve so no need to kill each other. but of course he is the only one who knows the truth.
His teenage companion refused to eat and rather starved to death ???? mmmmmmm something is not adding up
Reminder that all of your “something’s not adding up’s” over the past decade have fizzled out into nothing, just like all the fake news you’ve blindly believed.
He looks wayyyy to well fed and healthy to only have eaten raw seafood for 13 months.
Meat makes us healthy
@@Recipeswithaleezaa Do you know how much you'd have to catch of raw seafood to actually maintain, or even gain weight??? There's approx 90 calories in a .5lb fish. His weight looks approx 165lbs-175lbs meaning he needs to eat over 1650-1750 calories to gain weight and that's with NO physical activity. That's approx 20+fish per day...I call bullshit on this story.
Where is his tan? How do you spend a year adrift in the ocean and remain lily white?
I think that he killed the other teen and then ate him. It's easy to say the teen refused to eat and died after 4 monthts. He could of killed the teen the first week and spent the next 12-13 months eating him and thinking of a reason for why he died
how could he preserve meat without cooling source?
SALT preserves meat.
think about what you just wrote bud. a human body lasted him 12 months, and fed him well enough to stay chubby? are you alright in the head?
Lol, you should create fiction movies 😂😂
I don't mean to be disrespectful if his story is true but he doesn't look emaciated as would be expected (unless he has been eating a lot since his return) and as for his young companion it sounds ominous...could he have constituted a source of food?
i dont think anyone would want to be alone in the middle of nowhere, anyway im just curious how he still looks so healthy.
in comparison to what he looked like before, he didnt look all that healthy afterward tbh, he had to have help to even stand
The salt makes you swollen though
He’s a fucking wizard
Amazing man.
poor dude though!
I don't understand why anyone thinks this is a lie . They found him at sea and he was missing around the amount of time .
I was wondering why she questioning whether somebody was stuck in the ocean like he robbed the bank and got away with it or some shit
Here I am eating nachos and drinking a coke,, and bitching cause I'm out of guacamole. I'm such a moron.
Mis respetos para este hombre
They need to give this guy his own ship and a crew. hes obviously expereinced
at first i was very skeptical , thats a long time at sea floating on a raft , water would have been a big problem and food as well nevermind eating raw stuff , i don't know of any place that serves Seagull on the Menu , this must have been a Terrifying ordeal at night in the middle of the Sea or Ocean , Sharks would've been on my mind and Monsters of the Deep , he must've Prayed and God was Merciful , its a Miracle in itself that he lived to tell the tale
How can the expert guy call himself an expert if he never truly had to fight for his life to survive ?
Does a personal trainer need to be fit to understand what it takes for his clients to be fit? No. Is a father not able to understand his daughter because he was never a woman? No. Do you need to have been suicidal to aid someone who wants to kill themselves. No! Try to realize the stupidity of your statement.
Do you need to have sex before you understand how to?
Do you need to know how to use a shotgun to pull a Kurt Cobain?
probably, yea
The guy has been in many survival situations and mostly in deserts. He is experienced with this stuff and that's why they called and talked to him.
was a shark fisherman. had the gear , knew what to do from the getgo.
+Dan Ray so many uninformed people on here, first person who even knew he was a Sharker.
My first thought is why does he look so well fed?
Fish have meat in it, and he drank the sea so he remained healthy
@@bassboostor325 he drank his own pea not the sea.
the guy who went 76 days at sea couldnt walk after this guys walking 🤷♂️
I would have thought he would have been skin and bones. Very surprised.
Yeah he totally ate that kid.
yah
+Randy Jackson wrong
how did he keep the meat fresh then?
you cant eat the whole body in 1 meal
michael moore could have ate both of them in one meal...and would have shook his fist for more!
What a load of crap...... He looked exceptionally well for being adrift for over a year?????
Damn he's 37. Looks like he's 57
He was stranded at sea for 13 months 💀
Someone’s currently beating this record and no one knows it.
This story is a miracle and I know he had to be talking with Jesus to make it back alive! May God bless his entire soul! Halleuyah! ❤️
Stop
That would be kinda my worst nightmare since i don't even like swimming in the ocean
IMO the best people to survive on a raft with no food are the fat or muscular ones because they can draw upon body resources when starvation kicks in.
In effect they are still eating when someone with less fat or muscle isn't.The skinny people would soon die no matter how tough they are.
I have no idea if this is medically proven but it seems to make sense.
zenoist2 It's true. They can survive longer without food. The body just eats the fat stores.
"I kept saying I'm not going to die"
Cody, should you think I'm not going to die
What kind of question is that
I'm alittle skeptical about this story. He looks well Nourished and Hydrated, and his hair isn't matted like you would expect after 13 months at sea, not to mention his skin, the suns radiation would have caused alot of damage even if he has in the shade most of the time. Salty air would be heavy on his hair and skin ... I know, I've lived in a beach town and know what the sun and salt can do !!!.
You lived in a beach town but you’ve never been stranded at sea …..
Good for u then
How does a Salvadoran man go missing while fishing and then pops up in a corner of the Marshall islands? a lot of these skeptics are "well I could never do that so it must not be true".
Belief in a higher power, "a deity," saved him ? Contributed to his particular mindset and thus his survival, but it's not a necessity. An atheist with the resourcefulness and strength of will of this guy could likewise have survived.
........Wilson?
CORRECTION: He is from El Salvador, NOT Mexico. Please correct your description
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There is NO WAY a human refuses to eat when he is on the edge to die. I heard of people eating their shoes when they starving. He killed and eat his friend to survive. But the story would not sound good on that way so he lies.
Would have to see the size of his fishing vessel and if it had a cabin. No protection from the sun there's no way , this guys telling tall tales. He looks very healthy for someone being at sea for a year on a small craft with no provisions.
I was thinking that...
Yes, he had shelter on the boat. A fridge size ice box with lid, painted, so it did block light. He spent, like, 10am-4pm in it every day.
This guys book is really good
LOOKS PRETTY HEALTHY AND FULL FOR SOME ONE LIVING ON FISH FOR OVER A YEAR !
2:58 he looks exactly like Robin Williams In jumanji
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This guy doesn't look like he was out to sea for 13 months. I've see people worse for wear that spent only half a day out at sea. He looks well fed and no signs of sunburn.
Lost for a year? Bulls*t.
Everybody that thinks he ate the kid then answer this.How did he keep the meat fresh?The heat in the Pacific Ocean would rot that kid out in a few days.It would become unbearable to eat him.Even if he could get past the smell and taste you are not eating fresh meat.It is rotting germ infested meat that would make a healthy man sick and die.People that have eat other people to stay alive always were in a very cold place not a 110F hot as hell situation.Also one man cannot eat another in one meal.At best he may be able to eat off a dead body three times but then all you have is a rotting piece of filth thats going to make you sick if you continue.
you know nothing about eating humans.
marc fitzhenry And you don't either so fuck off kid.
Eddie Hayes "people that had to eat other people were always in very cold places" , Wrong. Let me guess, you made that up after you watched that movie of the dudes that crashed in the cold mountain and assumed that only people trapped in cold places eat others?
marc fitzhenry No dumb ass.
Eddie Hayes no you didn't watch the movie or no you disagree claiming that people have only ever eaten people in the very cold?
You are on public record claiming that people only eat others when its very cold, lol,,,
your point was "any dead animal including humans does not keep more than a day or two at most in hot weather before spoiling"
i always agreed with that point, i just thought your comment about the very cold being the only time people have eaten other people was funny as hell.
I just saw a documentary of a guy who was lost at sea for only 76 days and he was wasting away and was 100 pounds and skin and bones when rescued but this guy looks like he didn’t lose any weight after over a year
I’m not saying that because I don’t believe him, just thought that was weird
This is how you get away with murder.
yup exactly
leroy jenkins He didn't kill his colleague....
Question: wheres the boat? This area is monitored by many military aircraft. Plus his face would be serious burned or darker. Plus the salty air would do more damage to the skin.
Got to love the coke in his hand at the beginning when he comes off the boat.... COME ON NOW
Chris Webb How is that surprising to you? He's drinking a coke. Unbelievable!
I knew someone who lost, in jungle for 55 days and he's skinny af. 95kg to 54kg. But this man beef up excellently. Something fishy here
marzuqi58 where was this man going to get exercise he rarely left his boat
Stranded survivor: Comon man eat something.
Companion: I do not want to eat this nasty stuff.
Stranded survivor: Fine then, can I eat you?
*THE REST IS HISTORY*
I'm pretty sure I could rig up a makeshift water distilling apparatus if I was lost at sea and had nothing better to do. You could heat water with sunlight and collect the water vapor so it condenses and runs into a separate container. You don't have to get it boiling hot. It would be slow and tedious but what else do you have to do all day?
+Plur307 lol it doesnt work like that. you are pretty sure you could rig that? go out and try.
Siedler Joe
I've rigged up distillation setups both in real survival camping trips and in chemistry labs where I work full time as a scientist. So by all means explain to me how you can't:
1. place salt water in a sealed container, place it in the sun
2. have a tube of some kind run out of the top of the container
3. wrap tube in cloth
4. keep cloth damp so that the phase change of evaporation cools the tube
5. Have the tube drip into a collection container
Before you say it won't work consider I have done it several times and it does indeed work.
Yes it would be slow. But when you are trapped on a boat adrift at sea for a year what else do you have to do with your time? The speed depends on how hot you can get the water and how cold you can get the condensation coil.
Plur307 They problem i think is how slow it is. It takes too long for that process to occur if it is to be relied on for hydration. A better solution would be to capture as much rainwater as possible using those materials instead. Or set up a water filtration system with sand charcoal etc. Either way, problems occur and drinkin your piss is always on the table. Interesting idea though. If i was lost at sea on a fishing boat id probably give it all a try. It all depends on how many resources he had with him on the boat
He survived for 438 days
4 years later. Is this a true story or was it a cover up for him murdering the other person?
Was this the guy they found out later lied about the length of time he was lost at sea? Or am I confusing him with someone else? I am a wee bit skeptical about his story...
I literally thought the thumbnail was Val Kilmer.
his skin and muscle mass look really good for someone who was starved and without water in the beating sun for 14 months
Who doesnt believe that other guy refused to eat, watch series at youtube "shouldnt be alive" where people talk about similar experiences and what they have been through while drifting in the ocean. It helps to put thing in perspective
I bet all the people that are making jokes about this would not survive a week in the middle of the sea
Life of Pi
Very good movie.
For those saying he ate his companion, did he eat him over a few days or weeks? He had no fridge and wasn’t in the Andes snow capped mountains. How long would the body be edible in the hot sun? He was lost for 13 months. This was not crucial to his survival even if he did.
He eat him for a couple days and then used the body as bait for a few weeks...
Some fact was left out
Few people die of starvation after a month. It takes a long time to die of starvation
As per the limited details provided in this video: I've got a hypothesis that he killed his friend, then went undercover and after a year came to some island and said he was lost.
what title of the movie,that😊😊😊
he looks very healthy around this face fat on cheeks and other parts i wonder????
Exactly my thoughts. First place where you lose weight is in the face and hands. Total rubbish story.
He said he had food, and caught fish, turtles, and birds.
***** maybe ha was massively fat when he first got lost
Sage Pegnottga
Do you really think a massively fat man could do that? Fat people are weak, psychologically I mean
MightyForSure
Why so? Because they happen to eat a lot? That doesn't equate mental weakness. For some people this may be true, but it's certainly not true in all cases