A British-Canadian couple, Brett Clibbery, 70, and Sarah Packwood, 60, who were attempting to sail across the Atlantic, have tragically been found dead on Sable Island, Nova Scotia. The couple had set sail from Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia on June 11 aboard their 42-foot sailboat, the SV Theros, with the intention of reaching the Azores, a group of Portuguese islands located around 2,000 miles away in the mid-Atlantic.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) reported that the bodies of Clibbery and Packwood were discovered in a lifeboat that washed up on Sable Island on July 10, after they were reported missing on June 18. The circumstances surrounding why the couple abandoned their sailboat and entered the lifeboat remain unclear, and an investigation is currently underway.
