Questions
Speculation was bound to always remain so in April of 2014, Alvarenga’s lawyer presented to a press conference. He said that his client Alvarenga had indeed passed a lie detector test while asked about his devastating journey.
The Book
Then in 2015, Alvarenga felt comfortable enough to hold a series of interviews to the journalist Jonathan Franklin about his entire ordeal. Later that year, they published his story, titled 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea.