Hernán Darío Rodríguez was one of the divers swept away by the current in the Pacific Ocean, near Malpelo, during an expedition that nearly cost him his life.

But his story doesn't begin at sea.

Before being adrift, Hernán lived carrying the weight of deep wounds he had yet to acknowledge: a childhood marked by abandonment and comparisons, a difficult relationship with his father, the constant feeling of not being enough; a loss that broke his heart and an accident that led him to live with profound anger, pain, and sadness.

When the current swept him away, Hernán not only had to face hunger, exhaustion, fear, and the possibility of death; he also had to confront himself and everything he had been avoiding.

In this week's episode, Hernán talks with Juan Pablo about the experience that inspired the film *Pacífico*, about what he went through during those three days at sea, and about how that life-or-death moment became an experience that transformed his life in the most profound and unexpected way possible.

A conversation about anger, loneliness, and pain, but also about spirituality, forgiveness, survival, and purpose. About what happens when life confronts us with ourselves and about how, sometimes, getting lost can be the most unexpected—and most painful—way to begin finding ourselves.

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