The Mexican man, who was supposed to go on a two-day fishing trip with his friend, spent 438 days lost at sea without food or water.

José Salvador Alvarenga and his young friend Ezequiel Córdoba planned to spend a few days away from the beach. Mexican They will return with their best catch in November 2012.

Instead, they had to make a difficult journey weather The storm disabled their engines, leaving them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

The duo had to throw around 500kg of fish into the sea, along with most of their other equipment, to stay afloat.

Fisherman Salvador Alvarenga was stranded at sea for 438 days (HILARY HOSIA/AFP via Getty Images)

All they had left was an icebox used to store food. fish.

While Alvarenga tried to sail to safer waters, Córdoba was busy using the icebox to save the water.

Without GPS signal, the couple suddenly appeared Will be left at sea for 438 days.

The only way they can to eat was to use the ice box, like a fisherman leaning over the side of a boat to catch swimming fish.

Córdoba was tasked with gutting the fish and cutting strips of its flesh to dry in the sun.

They lived on rainwater and raw fish all the way to Córdoba. seriously ill from eating a bird.

Alvarenga said According to The Guardian, one morning his friend said: “I’m dying, I’m dying, I’m almost gone.

“Don’t think about it. Let’s take a nap,” Alvarenga replied, and his friend took a sip from his water bottle and died a few minutes later.

Alvarenga blamed himself for Córdoba’s death (JOSE CABEZAS/AFP via Getty Images)

“I propped him up to keep him out of the water. I was afraid a wave might wash him out of the boat,” Alvarenga said.

“I cried for hours”

The next morning, the fisherman said he would talk to the corpse as a way of keeping his mind.

He would ask: “How are you feeling? How was your sleep? I slept well, how about you? Have you had breakfast?

“First I washed your feet. His clothes were practical, so I pulled out a pair of shorts and a sweatshirt.

“I put it on – it was red, with little skull and crossbones – and then I threw it into the water. And as I slid it into the water, I fainted.”

“What can I do alone? With no one to talk to? “Why did he die and not me? I invited him fishing. I blamed myself for his death.”

Having drifted for approximately 6,700 miles, Alvarenga finally made landfall on Ebon Atoll in the Marshall Islands in January 2014.

Local people helped him recover and eventually return home.