After a failed attempt to float across the Atlantic Ocean, a French couple was discovered dead inside their life boat.
Brett Clibbery, 70, and his wife, Sarah Packwood, 60, had set sail on June 11 from Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia, trying to sail to the Azores, a group of Portuguese territories about 2, 000 km away in the middle of the Atlantic. The journey in their 42-foot-vessel was scheduled to take 21 times.
Clibbery and Packwood, of British Columbia, were reported missing a week later. On July 10,  , their bodies were discovered washed ashore in their inflated lifeboat , on Sable Island, about 190 miles east of Halifax, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.
Why the partners left their bigger boat is still a mystery.
Sable Island has been dubbed” the graveyard of the Atlantic”  , where more than 350 shipwrecks have occurred since 1583, according to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. The Atlantic coastline is typically the area’s center of winds, which frequently blow sailing ships straight into the area.
One theory investigators are pursuing is that their larger boat was  , hit by a passing cargo ship , which did n’t see them, according to Canadian news outlet Saltwire. No shipwreck of the ship has been discovered. Their incidents are not considered cautious, according to the RCMP.
The pair, who posted updates about their journeys on a YouTube channel named  , Theros Adventures, had promoted their tour as a “green” option since their eco-friendly ship, also named Theros, was electric and powered by solar panels.
” They were amazing people, and there is n’t anything that will fill the hole that has been left by their so far unexplained passing” , , Clibbery’s son James wrote on Facebook.
The two had met in London in 2015 and afterwards married in British Colombia.
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