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Elvis Francois, who was rescued this week from his sailboat, also consumed rainwater that he scooped up with a cloth during his 24 days in the middle of the sea in the Caribbean. The 47-year-old went missing in December when currents pushed his sailboat out to sea while he was carrying out repairs off the island of St Martin in the Netherlands Antilles.
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After being rescued, Elvis said: “I called my friends, they tried to contact me, but I lost the signal. There was nothing else to do but sit and wait.” Eventually, he was spotted by a passing Colombian military plane after he used a mirror as a signal and wrote the word “help” on the boat’s hull.