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In November 2012, Salvador Alvarenga went fishing off the coast of Mexico. Two days later, a storm hit and he was lost at sea and no one heard from him for 438 days. Newsday reported on his story when he washed ashore on the Marshall Islands, stick thin and ridden with illnesses but - amazingly - alive. Many doubted if his story was true at all. Some called it unbelievable. But that's when one intrepid journalist started to look into the details, he tracked down Salvador Averenga and conducted more than 40 interviews with him. Newsday's Tom Hagler spoke to the journliast, Jonathan Franklin, author of a new book about Alvarenga's remarkable experience, "438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival At Sea." (Photo: Salvador Alvarenga, disembarking the patrol boat Lomor, at Majuro. Credit: US Embassy, Marshall Islands)