article_snippet.sent: Castaway recounts how Jose Salvador Alvarenga survived over a year adrift in Pacific .
article_snippet.sent: What was supposed to be a one-day trip, Jose Salvador Alvarenga says, turned into an arduous odyssey across the Pacific Ocean, one that saw Jose Salvador Alvarenga lose Jose Salvador Alvarenga fishing companion and tested Jose Salvador Alvarenga will and ability to survive.
article_snippet.sent: Then, after 13 or 14 months adrift, Jose Salvador Alvarenga and Jose Salvador Alvarenga small, heavily damaged boat arrived on the Ebon Atoll, about a 22-hour boat ride from the Marshall Islands capital of Majuro.
article_snippet.sent: the Ebon Atoll has one phone line, no Internet service and a few residents, two of whom Jose Salvador Alvarenga spotted and shouted to after spending a night in the woods.
article_snippet.sent: Some 26 days after and nearly 600 miles away from where the journey began, fishermen spotted the tiny vessel north of the Galapagos Islands.
highlights_snippet.sent: A South Carolina man says A South Carolina man spent 66 days alone at sea before being rescued .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: A South Carolina man says A South Carolina man drifted from Mexico to Marshall Islands over a year .