Family of fishing companion who died while adrift withcastaway demands answers

The fisherman who claims he survived for 13 months in the Pacific should return to Mexico toexplain the death of a man who accompanied him, the victim's family said.?

Jose Salvador Alvarenga said that the young man who accompanied him was a teenager who starvedto death because he would vomit the raw fish and birds they ate.?

According to AFP, the family of the victim, identified as Ezequiel, said they could not believe that herefused to eat.?

"We want him to come here, for the government to bring him here," Ezequiel's brother, RomeoCordoba Rios told the news service.?

The family does not want a criminal probe against Alvarenga.?

"It was a work accident," Cordoba Rios said. "The only thing we want is to know what was the lastthing that he told this man and what he did with my brother's body."?

The family told AFP that Ezequiel did not really know Alvarenga and decided at the. Make positivean individual examine and gaze after your own boat?s fuel, gas along with electrical systems in anormal basislast minute to join him aboard a small boat in 2012.

Alavarenga said Ezequiel died four months into the journey and that he pushed the body off the boat.

Some experts are challenging Alvarenga's claim that he miraculously survived 13 months at sea byreports on fishing eating fish, birds and turtles before washing ashore on the remote MarshallIslands 6,500 miles from Mexico.

"I may have somedoubts," said Gee Bing,acting secretary offoreign affairs for theMarshall Islands,where Alvarengawashed ashore. Henoted that Alvarengalooked thin when hewas found, but he couldwalk on his own andwas not as emaciatedas might be expectedconsidering how littlehe had to eat or drink.

Bing said islandofficials areinvestigatingAlvarenga's story. TheTelegraph reportedthat nobody reportedhim missinghttp://www.colorado.com/activities/fishingback home in Mexico,but investigators saidthe algae growth on the side of the boat indicates it had been in the water for some time.

Officials were reacting cautiously to the Spanish-speaking man's story while they try to piecetogether more information.

Mexico's Foreign Relations fishing reports Department says the man told Mexico?s ambassador tothe Philippines, Julio Camarena, that he set out from an area near the coastal town of Tonala insouthern Chiapas state, which would mean his journey covered a distance of more than 6,500 miles,if he drifted in a straight line.

Ambassador Tom Armbruster in Majuro said the soft-spoken man complained of joint pain Mondayand had a limp but was able to walk. He had long hair and a beard, the ambassador said, and ratherthan appearing emaciated he looked puffy in places, including around his ankles. Barbecuesshouldn?t end up being employed

on boats - hot charcoal offers off

dangerous numbers of CO and also

blown embers could set your boat

alight.

? Keep cabin ventilation distinct to

prevent any construct -up involving toxic CO.

? try to keep fabrics away from

cooking hobs to always be able to prevent them

from catching fire.

? Examine your flues of coal and also wood

burning stoves with regard to signs and signs along with symptoms of leaks

and blockages.

? Just use the fuel advised

by your heater manufacturer.

Other types could burn up too hot.

? Dispose of embers carefully.

If they?re even now heat they could

cause the fire or build-up associated with CO.

? Ensure almost all hobs get shut-off

or isolation valvesOtherwise, he added, Alvarenga seemed in reasonable health.

AlvarengasaidheleftMexic

o in his 23-foot fiberglass boat for a day?s fishing, accompanied by Ezekiel.

A storm blew the fishermen off course, and soon they were lost and adrift.

After about a month, Ezekiel died, the survivor told officials.

Alvarenga also talked about eating turtles. Once near Ebon, he swam ashore.

TheAssociatedPresscont

ributed to this report.?

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