A man who spent 24 days adrift in the Caribbean Sea says he survived by eating little more than ketchup.
Elvis Francois, 47, was found 120 nautical miles northwest of Colombia's Puerto Bolívar after a plane saw the word "help" engraved on the hull of his sailboat, the Colombian navy said in a statement Thursday.
Francois, from the island nation of Dominica, said he had been making repairs to his boat near the Dutch part of the island of Saint Martin in December when adverse weather conditions pulled his boat out to sea.
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