A man who spent weeks lost at sea survived by eating ketchup and seasoning before being rescued, the Colombian navy announced. Elvis Francois, 47, said he had been carrying out repairs to his sailboat near the island of Saint Martin in the Caribbean in December when bad weather dragged his vessel out to sea. His lack of navigational knowhow reportedly prevented him getting back to shore.
“I had no food,” Francois said in a video shared by the Colombian navy. “It was just a bottle of ketchup that was on the boat, garlic powder and Maggi [stock cubes], so I mixed it up with some water.” Francois, from the island nation of Dominica, spent 24 days adrift before he was found about 120 nautical miles off the coast of Colombia after a plane noticed the word “help” written on the hull of his boat.
When asked if the one bottle of ketchup was enough to sustain him, Mr. Francois told reporters: “Well, in heinz-sight, it’s pretty clear that the more ketchup I would have had with me, the better off I would have been. But heinz-sight is 20/20.”
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