A Canadian couple who were found dead in their life raft after a failed attempted to sail across the Atlantic Ocean have been identified.
Brett Clibbery, 70, and his wife, Sarah Packwood, 60, had set sail on June 11 from Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia, intending to sail to the Azores, a group of Portuguese islands about 2,000 miles away in the middle of the Atlantic. The trip in their 42-foot-vessel was scheduled to take 21 days.
Clibbery and Packwood, of British Columbia, were reported missing a week later. On July 10, their bodies were discovered washed ashore in their inflatable lifeboat on Sable Island, about 190 miles southeast of Halifax, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.
It’s remains unclear why the couple abandoned their larger boat.
Sable Island has been dubbed “the graveyard of the Atlantic”where more than 350 shipwrecks have occurred since 1583, according to the Maritime …