Freshly shaved but still weak and exhausted.....Jose Salvador Alvarenga makes his second media appearance since he washed ashore in the Marshall islands one week ago.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) CASTAWAY JOSE SALVADOR ALVERENGA SAYING:<br/> <br />"I want to thank the government of this place for their support to my friends. My friends they supported me thanks for taking care of me. I feel much better .. nothing else."<br/> <br />Alvarenga, seen here emerging from a patrol boat claims he spent more than a year adrift in the Pacific Ocean.<br/> <br />Here being helped by a male nurse the 37 year old says he survived by catching fish and birds with his bare hands.<br/> <br />Alvarenga told officials he set sail on a shark fishing trip from Mexico at the end of 2012...He was with a friend who died on board. That was some 10,000 km away....but the boat was blown off course.<br/> <br />Alvarenga says he is anxious to return here to El Salvador but Doctors say the fisherman is too dehydrated to travel.<br/> <br />Back ho
