The bodies of a couple who were on a sailing trip across the Atlantic Ocean have been found on a life raft that washed up on a remote Canadian island almost six weeks after they were last seen.
Briton Sarah Packwood, 54, and her Canadian husband, Brett Clibbery, 70, are thought to have abandoned their yacht and died before washing up on Sable Island – known as the “graveyard of the Atlantic” – east of Nova Scotia in Canada on 12 July.
The couple were reported missing on 18 June after leaving Nova Scotia in their 13 metre (42ft) eco-friendly yacht, Theros, on 11 June. On 13 June, Clibbery’s GPS device pinged a final signal about 40 miles south-west of Sable Island.
They were on the way to the Azores, a collection of islands belonging to Portugal in the middle of the Atlantic, with the 2,050-mile (3,228 km) trip planned to take 21 days.
In a post on Facebook, Clibbery’s son James confirmed the pair had died, saying the last few days had been “very hard”. He said an investigation was under way and that he was awaiting a DNA test on the bodies.
He said: “They were amazing people, and there isn’t anything that will fill the hole that has been left by their so far unexplained passing.”
It remains unknown what happened, but police have said a “multi-agency” investigation is under way. One theory investigators are exploring is that the yacht was struck by a passing cargo ship that did not notice the collision, according to Canadian news website Saltwire.'
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