article_snippet.sent: Jose Salvador Alvarenga says Jose Salvador Alvarenga journey began in Paredon Viejo, a port on Mexico's Pacific coast, in late 2012.
article_snippet.sent: The exact date is up for debate -- Jose Salvador Alvarenga says Jose Salvador Alvarenga set off in December, locals say it was November.
article_snippet.sent: But what's not in doubt is that, after Jose Salvador Alvarenga left, Jose Salvador Alvarenga disappeared.
article_snippet.sent: That's when Jose Salvador Alvarenga interacted with humans once again, thousands of miles away on a remote atoll in the Marshall Islands.
article_snippet.sent: Four weeks in, Jose Salvador Alvarenga said
article_snippet.sent: Jose Salvador Alvarenga partner -- 23-year-old Ezequiel Cordova, according to the boat's owner -- died because Jose Salvador Alvarenga refused to eat raw birds.
article_snippet.sent: Jose Salvador Alvarenga says Jose Salvador Alvarenga drank rainwater and, when there wasn't any available, Jose Salvador Alvarenga own urine.
article_snippet.sent: Jose Salvador Alvarenga ate sea turtles.