The story breaks
Finally, on the 31st January 2014, Giff Johnson from Agence France Presse wrote the first account of Alvarenga’s story. Once the damn had broken, the whole world went crazy, blocking up the single phone line on Ebon with reporters trying to get more information.
Reporters from Hawaii, Los Angeles, and Australia all clamored to get to the tiny island, and fill in the missing parts of the story around this castaway fisherman. They had the missing person’s report, the information from the search team in Mexico, and the man himself. But they wanted more.