Man survives on ketchup for weeks lost at sea - CNN

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A antheral who spent 24 days adrift successful the Caribbean Sea says helium survived by eating small much than ketchup.

Elvis Francois, 47, was recovered 120 nautical miles northwest of Colombia’s Puerto Bolívar aft a level saw the connection “help” engraved connected the hull of his sailboat, the Colombian navy said successful a connection Thursday.

“I had nary food. It was conscionable a vessel of ketchup that was connected the boat, ail pulverization and Maggi (stock cubes) truthful I mixed it up with immoderate water,” Francois said successful a video provided by the Colombian army.

Francois, from the land federation of Dominica, said helium had been making repairs to his vessel adjacent the Dutch portion of the land of Saint Martin successful December erstwhile adverse upwind conditions pulled his vessel retired to sea.

He said helium lacked navigational cognition and was incapable to maneuver his vessel backmost to enactment – spending weeks mislaid astatine sea.

“Twenty 4 days – nary land, cipher to speech to. Don’t cognize what to do, don’t cognize wherever you are. It was rough,” helium said. “At a definite time, I suffer hope. I deliberation astir my family.”

After being rescued, helium was transferred to the larboard metropolis of Cartagena wherever helium received aesculapian attraction and was aboriginal handed implicit to migration authorities for his instrumentality home, Colombian officials said.