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A castaway is being sued by his friend's family who claim he only survived 15 months at sea by EATING his pal. 
  
 Salvador Alvarenga spent 438 days drifting across the middle of the Pacific Ocean until he washed ashore in the Marshall Islands in January last year. 
  
 The 36-year-old was with crewmate Ezequiel Cordoba, 22, when the boat they were in was crippled by a storm, leaving them drifting 6,700 miles from the coast of Mexico. 
  
 Mr Alvarenga, from El Salvador, later told how he stayed alive by drinking urine and turtle blood and eating fish and birds he caught by hand. 
  
 And the tuna fisherman described how, after his best friend starved to death early on, he left the rotting body at the boat's bow for six days for company. 
  
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 But the family of Mr Cordoba are now demanding a million dollars (£650,000) compensation after claiming that he was a victim of cannibalism, according to reports. 
  
 Mr Alvarenga's lawyer, Ricardo Cucalon, told El Salvador's El Diario de Hoy newspaper denied that the castaway had eaten his shipmate but had instead thrown his body into the water. 
  
 He pointed out that the lawsuit was launched just days after the long-awaited book about Mr Alvarenga's ordeal had been published. 
  
 He said: "I believe that this demand is part of the pressure from this family to divide the proceeds of royalties. Many believe the book is making my client a rich man, but what he will earn is much less than people think." 
  
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 Mr Alvarenga was working in a fishing village on the Pacific coast of Mexico's southern Chiapas state when the two men took out a small fishing boat to catch tuna. 
  
 The craft disappeared during bad weather on 17 November 2012, and no trace of them or the boat was found during an intense two-week search. 
  
 He made global headlines when he was washed up on the remote Pacific atoll of Ebon in the Marshall Islands nearly and year and a half later, seemingly robust and barely sunburned. 
  
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 After a battery of tests, doctors have declared him in remarkable physical health. He has a spinal injury but will only need physiotherapy. 
  
 He later said he came close to giving up hope of being rescued after several large ships came near his small fishing boat but none tried to rescue him. 
  
 The castaway said he had talked to God constantly during his odyssey. He added: "I always had faith in God that I was going to live, asking Him every day, every night." 
  
 He said he became so hungry he began to grab jellyfish from the water, scooping them up in his hands and swallowing them whole. 
  
 He added: "It burned the top part of my throat, but wasn't so bad." ||||| A fisherman who stunned the world by surviving 15 months lost at sea is being sued for $1 million (£650,000) by the family of his dead colleague, who accuse him of eating their relative to ensure his own survival. 
  
 Salvador Alvarenga, 36, is the only man known to have survived for over a year at sea. 
  
 And when he set sail from the coast of Mexico in November 2012, he thought he was setting out on a two-day fishing trip, having paid 22-year-old Ezequiel Cordoba $50 to accompany him. 
  
 But a vicious storm with 10ft waves knocked out the 25ft boat’s communication systems, and washed their supplies overboard. 
  
 Mr Alvarenga, a hard-living, tough professional from El Salvador , radioed the boat’s owner and demanded to be rescued. His last words to land were: “Come now, I am really getting ------ out here.” 
  
 Cordoba, a novice fisherman, panicked, said Mr Alvarenga. 
  
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 He suffered hallucinations and tried to throw himself overboard, where sharks were circling. The pair survived for several months by catching fish and birds, and drinking turtle blood and rainwater. But one bird they ate made Cordoba severely sick, and they found a yellow poisonous sea snake inside its stomach. 
  
 Cordoba proved to be less resilient than the older man, refusing to eat some of the stomach-churning raw meat that kept Mr Alvarenga alive. He eventually died, extracting promises from Mr Alvarenga not to eat his corpse, and to find Cordoba’s mother and tell her what happened. 
  
 Mr Alvarenga befriended the corpse, keeping it on the boat for six days and chatting to it, until he realised his own insanity and threw it overboard. 
  
 “I could see my death was going to be very, very slow,” he said. 
  
 But against all odds, he survived. Mr Alvarenga washed up in the Marshall Islands, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, in January 2014. Dazed and emaciated, he was found by a couple living on the island who took him in. 
  
 His story was initially greeted with incredulity, but accepted as truth once experts confirmed that his experience as a fisherman and physical strength would just about make survival possible. 
  
 In March 2014, amid much media hype, Mr Alvarenga visited Cordoba’s mother, Rosalia Rios, and delivered the message from her son. 
  
 “He told him how he cried at Ezequiel’s death, talking to him, telling him that he wasn’t dead and was only asleep,” said Benedicto Perlera, Mr Alvarenga’s lawyer at the time. 
  
 “In the end he had to throw him into the sea. 
  
 “In the middle of the ocean he had no way of knowing the day, and did not have a calendar, but he believes it was around March and so that is how we shall remember him.” 
  
 But soon the experience soured. 
  
 In January this year Mr Perlera, his previous lawyer, sued him for $1 million after Mr Alvarenga signed a book deal and switched firms. 
  
 The book, 438 Days, was published in October. 
  
 And now Cordoba’s family have also begun $1 million legal action, accusing Mr Alvarenga of eating their relative. 
  
 "I believe that this demand is part of the pressure from this family to divide the proceeds of royalties,” said Ricardo Cucalon, Mr Alvarenga's new lawyer. He told El Salvadoran newspaper El Diario de Hoy that Mr Alvarenga has always denied eating Cordoba. 
  
 Photo: AFP 
  
 “Many believe the book is making my client a rich man, but what he will earn is much less than people think." 
  
 Mr Cucalon said that his client has returned to the town of San Francisco Menéndez, in Ahuachapán close to the border with Guatemala, where he lives in a rented house shared with his parents and daughter. 
  
 The book, he said, has done poorly in the US, with only 1,500 copies sold. But that has not stopped Cordoba’s family from seeking a share of the profits. 
  
 In April, they demanded that Mr Alvarenga hand over 50 per cent of the revenues. |||||
Output:
Castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga survived a year at sea by eating birds, fish, and turtles he could scavenge from his disabled boat. Now, grisly claims are emerging that the 36-year-old fisherman also ate something else: his dead crewmate. The family of Ezequiel Cordoba is suing Alvarenga for $1 million, alleging that he ate the 22-year-old's body, reports the Daily Mirror. However, it isn't clear what evidence, if any, backs up the claim. Alvarenga paid Cordoba $50 to accompany him on what was to be a two-day fishing trip off the coast of Mexico in November 2012, per the Telegraph. Alvarenga's lawyer denies the allegation of cannibalism, saying the Cordoba family is trying to make a quick buck now that Alvarenga has become famous. Alvarenga's lawyer notes the lawsuit was filed days after the release of 438 Days, a book about the fisherman's survival. "I believe that this demand is part of the pressure from this family to divide the proceeds of royalties," he says, adding that Cordoba's family had demanded 50% of the profits back in April. "Many believe the book is making my client a rich man, but what he will earn is much less than people think." Alvarenga has said he and Cordoba survived months together before the increasingly distraught younger man finally succumbed to hunger. He says he kept the corpse on the boat for six days, chatting with it for company, before coming to his senses and throwing it overboard.