A couple who were trying to sail across the Atlantic Ocean have been found dead washed up in a lifeboat on a remote island.
British musician Sarah Packwood, 54, and her husband Brett Clibbery, 70, were attempting to make their way from Nova Scotia, Canada, to the Azores.
They set sail on June 11 on their 42ft wind and solar-powered yacht named Theros but were reported missing a week later after contact had been lost with the boat.
Their bodies were discovered in a three-metre life raft on Sable Island – a stretch of land dubbed the ‘graveyard of the Atlantic’ around 180 miles east of Nova Scotia – last week.
It’s not yet known how the couple got into trouble on their 2,000-mile voyage from North America to the Portuguese islands, which lie around 870 miles west of mainland Europe.
Brett, a Canadian, was carrying a Garmin GPS device which reportedly pinged a final signal on June 13 around 40 …