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Is this where tragic Brit explorer and her husband ran into trouble? Map shows where eco-yacht was last tracked nearly a month before their bodies were found – as it emerges they tried a similar journey five years ago before turning back due to stormy seas [Video]

03:36 EDT 21 Jul 2024, updated 03:36 EDT 21 Jul 2024

A map showing where a British reiki healer and her Canadian husband’s echo-yacht was last tracked before their bodies were tragically found nearly a month later has been revealed.

Brett Clibbery, 70, and Sarah Justine Packwood, 54, were reported missing a week after setting off from Nova Scotia in Canada for the Azores in their 42ft sailing boat Theros on June 11.

Their bodies were found on July 10 in a life raft washed up on Sable Island – nicknamed the ‘Graveyard of the Atlantic’. Exactly how they ran into trouble is not yet known but investigators are believed to be pursuing a number of theories.

It has since emerged that the couple amade an earlier attempt to reach the Azores in 2019 before they were forced to turn back after encountering vicious storms on the sea.

MailOnline can reveal a GPS device belonging to Mr Clibbery may have pinged …

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