The mummified German sailor who looked like something out of Davy Jones’ locker was likely only dead for a week, a new autopsy revealed.

Images of a salt-encrusted Manfred Fritz Bajorat, a 59-year-old adventurer who had been traveling the world for 20 years on a small yacht, went viral earlier this week — showing his desiccated corpse slumped over with his right arm leaning on a desk in the main cabin.

But a police spokesman in the Philippines, where his boat was found last Friday about 60 miles off shore, said Bajorat, who died from a heart attack, “is estimated to have been dead for more or less seven days,” Chief Superintendent Wilben Mayor said, according to Agence France-Presse.

The autopsy results released Wednesday contradicted early reports about Bajorat’s death, which initially pegged him passing away years ago as no one had seen him since 2009 and due to the state his body was in. Forensic examiners were initially vague, concluding that Bajorat died more than four days before the yacht was found.

Before setting out to sea, Bajorat divorced his wife, Claudia, who died two years later of cancer.

The German embassy is trying to locate any members of his family to claim the body.