Castaway struggles to recover

A fisherman who was lost at sea for 13 months faces health challenges as he tries to recover. CNN's Rafael Romo reports.

[marcosguerrero]

This man is an inspiration to everyone. I cant imagine what he went through out there alone for so long. Im so grateful he is home, and with his family ❤️🙏🙏

[Blackneck]

Eating raw turtles? Man that must've been awful... 

[Easyenglishlearningwithsam]

He couldn’t have eaten his friend and survived on his meat...for how many days can u eat someone’s meat without keeping it in the freezer...so

[unknownuser]

438 days is like 14 1/2 months, not 13.

[MiguelTorres-erzw]

I cant even imagine living in those conditions at least 2 weeks

[varunkarekar]

Who came after hearing Kautuk's story

[MrTunes]

Typical CNN, his colleague died 4 MONTHS into the voyage, not 4 weeks.

[SB-tlzz]

He didnt look malnourished. Looks pretty plumb

[singy]

All u doubters are mean! Let the proper authority investigate.... meanwhile reserve judgements!

[banditsco]

It’s weird how quickly people just accepted this as fact without much skepticism. If some random guy showed up claiming he spent 13 months lost at sea, you’d think there’d be a bigger effort to verify it. The whole thing feels way too convenient—like a movie script that people just accepted without questioning.

The lack of severe weight loss alone is a huge red flag. Someone barely surviving on fish and birds for over a year should look like a skeleton, not just a little malnourished. And since the entire story depends on his word, with no verifiable proof, it’s impossible to confirm.

At best, maybe he was lost at sea, but not for as long as he claimed. At worst, it’s a complete exaggeration, and he somehow ended up in the Marshall Islands under totally different circumstances. But yeah, I wouldn’t just accept it at face value. You’d think scientists and survival experts would’ve studied him like crazy to understand how the human body could endure that. Instead, it’s just “Yep, he survived. What a miracle!” and onto the next headline. Super sketchy.

[ShaaRhee]

How did he catch the turtles? How did he survive the ocean storms? And yeah, he obviously had a knife...

[tortoisetraveler]

His hair and beard don't seem like 13 month

[justhimo]

that show us how the human being can be alive if he doesn't lost hope indeed its God wisdom .

[arizelizdelgado]

PRAISE THE ONLY LIVING GOD, ALMIGHTY IN HEAVEN

[rosihantu]

He looks better with long hair and beard

[The-riginall]

How he didn’t loose weight and body mass is questionable…

[TreasureHuntingNana]

let's pretend he did kill the other man and eat him for the time he could with out the flesh going would that be classed as murder and illegal under the circumstances?

[joesmith]

He likely ate his buddy. Don’t blame him.

[debbief]

He wouldn't look like that if he'd been adrift at 438 days?... Come on 🤔

[JuliusCesar]

his hair only grew a little long. At 438 days it should be twice as much. Something fishy about this story