Rescued by the Wreckage

In 1982, a commercial fisherman named Salvador Alvarenga set out from the coast of Mexico on what should have been a routine trip. When a violent storm destroyed his motor and shredded his radio, he drifted for 438 days across the Pacific Ocean. His small fiberglass boat became both his prison and his lifeboat. He later told interviewers that in those early days of terror, he begged God to send a ship.…