(CNN) -- A mysterious castaway claiming to have been lost at sea for 13 months is now safely back on land, but many questions remain about how he could have lived on his small boat for so long as it drifted across the Pacific Ocean.

The man calling himself Jose Salvador Alvarenga turned up in a heavily damaged boat on a remote coral atoll in the Marshall Islands, claiming that he had been living off fish and turtles he had caught and relying on rainwater, and sometimes his own urine, to drink.

Authorities are trying to determine the veracity of Alvarenga's story. The Mexican government issued a statement Monday confirming Alvarenga's identity and saying he was an El Salvador national who was living in Tonala in Chiapas state.

http://edition.cnn.com/2...rshall-islands-castaway/

has anyone seen the movie "Life of Pi"?

Jose Salvador Albaniaga in a picture taken before he left on his 'fateful trip'



Alive! The first picture of Jose Salvador Alvarenga, still with his tangled hair and scraggy beard, as he arrives in Marujo, in the Marshall Islands after 14 months adrift at sea. He looked plumper than expected - but doctors say his body could be swollen from the conditions he endured

Pictures emerged today of the boat in which a fisherman from Mexico drifted from the Central American coast to the isolated Marshall Islands in the Pacific as have new details in the man’s remarkable tale of survival.

The heavily damaged and sea-worn old boat was Jose Salvador Alvarenga's only companion for much of his harrowing 13-month, 8,000mile saga of perseverance and, as he tells it, God-given luck.

Pictures show a painted blue box inside the 24ft fiber-glass boat. It's what looks to be some type of cooler to store the sharks he once caught for a living.

http://www.dailymail.co....rift-Pacific-Ocean.html

I think he is a wazuan and was on the thread titled "Keep Trying"