Dead couple washes ashore in life raft, prompting Canada police investigation [Video]

Canada’s national police force is investigating the deaths of two sailors whose bodies washed ashore earlier this month on a raft in Nova Scotia. 

One of the sailors was identified this week as a 70-year-old man from British Columbia who set sail in early June for a planned tour across the Atlantic in his yacht, the Theros, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Monday. While they continued working to confirm the second sailor’s identity, investigators were confident that she was the other person known to have been on board the yacht when it left Halifax Harbor for the Azores on June 11, according to police. His sailing partner was a 54-year-old woman, also from British Columbia, they said.

Both sailors had been reported missing on June 18.

Although law enforcement didn’t publicly name either of them, an apparent family member identified the couple as James Brett Clibbery and his wife, Sarah Justine Packwood, in a social media postshared three days after the …