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Brett Clivery (left) and Sarah Packwood (right) in a Facebook post from 2017.
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An English-Canadian couple about to sail Across the Atlantic His body was found on an island off the east coast. Canada.
Brett Clivery, 70, and his wife Sarah Packwood, 60, were sailing aboard their 42-foot yacht, the SV Ceros, when their bodies were discovered in a lifeboat that washed up on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, according to a statement from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on July 12.
The couple left the port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, on June 11, bound for the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago in the mid-Atlantic, some 2,000 miles away.
They were reported missing on June 18th and their bodies were discovered on July 10th.
It is unclear why the couple abandoned the Cerros and climbed into a lifeboat, and the investigation is ongoing, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
CNN has reached out to the RCMP for comment.
Sable Island is a 27-mile-long sandbar located about 186 miles southeast of Halifax. The island is known as the “Graveyard of the Atlantic” and has more than 350 documented shipwrecks since 1583, according to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.
Clivery’s son James paid tribute to his father and to Packwood. post On facebook.
“They were wonderful people, and nothing will ever fill the hole created by their heretofore unexplained deaths,” he wrote.
“Life would not be the same without your wisdom, and your wife quickly became a beacon of knowledge and kindness. I miss your smile. I miss your voice. I will miss you forever.”
Crivelle and Packwood describe themselves as adventure tourists and documented their journey on YouTube, called “Theros Adventures.”
The ill-fated voyage was part of what the couple called a “green odyssey”, which Mr Clivery said was aimed at showing it was possible to travel long distances without burning fossil fuels.
“We have electric boats,” Clivery said. video It was posted to YouTube on May 13. “The engine is charged by solar panels.”
The pair told the Guardian they met by chance at a London bus stop in 2015, when Mr Clivery was visiting the UK to donate a kidney to his sister. article It was published in 2020.
The pair saw each other daily for several weeks after their first meeting, after which Ms Clivery helped Mr Packwood care for his dying mother and later looked after him after kidney surgery.
The two stayed in touch after Clivery returned to Canada, and Packwood visited him in the spring of 2016 on Salt Spring Island, near Vancouver, where the Clivery was docked.
“He took me on my first yachting trip, which was great fun,” Packwood told The Guardian. “Brett proposed to me in the main cabin of the boat.”
