Castaway Who Survived 14 Months at Sea Being Sued For Eating His Friend

A fisherman who survived cast away at sea for 14 months is being sued for eating his shipmate to survive.

Business Insider writes:

The fisherman who survived for 14 months at sea is being sued for $1 million (£650,000) by relatives of his dead colleague, who accuse him of eating their relative to survive.

Salvador Alvarenga, 36, paid Ezequiel Cordoba, 22, $50 to accompany him on a two-day fishing trip off the coast of Mexico in November 2012.

After a vicious storm pushed the boat out to sea, the pair survived by catching fish and birds, and drinking turtle blood and urine.

Cordoba eventually died after making Alvarenga promise not to eat his corpse and to find his mother and tell her what happened.

Alvarenga kept the corpse on the boat for six days for company, until he realised he had lost his grip on reality and threw it overboard.

But Alvarenga maintains he did not eat his friend. His attorney alleges that this is all stemming from the recent release of a book details Alvarenga’s ordeal; that the family of Corboda are suing him because they believe he is getting rich off of the tragedy.