to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. According to WPBF, the man told the boat crew that he'd been stranded at sea for some 36 hours, and the six people he traveled with from the Bahamas had disappeared into the Atlantic, and he'd drifted about 100 miles north. Cornell told Treasure Coast Newspapers that the man "was stiff, he had been in the saltwater for almost 36 hours. He wasn't going to make it through the day." The Coast Guard eventually arrived and took the man to help him recover. On Sunday night, the Coast Guard suspended the search for the six other people who were reported as missing.