Americas and the Caribbean

Man lost at sea lives on a bottle of ketchup for 24 days

Elvis Francois, a 47-year-old Dominican man, survived for more than three weeks on a bottle of ketchup when he was lost in the Caribbean Sea, before being rescued in the waters of Colombia. He was working on the repair of a sailing boat near the Caribbean Island of Saint Martin in December when the boat was swept into the open sea due to the bad weather. He became lost, but found a bottle of ketchup on the boat and says that is what he survived on for 24 days.

January 19, 2023