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One of the sailors was recognized this week as a 70-year-old man from British Columbia who set sail in early June for a deliberate tour throughout the Atlantic in his yacht, the Theros, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police stated Monday. While they continued working to verify the second sailor’s identification, investigators had been assured that she was the opposite particular person recognized to have been on board the yacht when it left Halifax Harbor for the Azores on June 11, in keeping with police. His crusing companion was a 54-year-old lady, additionally from British Columbia, they stated.
Both sailors had been reported lacking on June 18.
Although legislation enforcement did not publicly title both of them, an obvious member of the family recognized the couple as James Brett Clibbery and his spouse, Sarah Justine Packwood, in a social media put up shared three days after the our bodies washed ashore on July 10. The put up was shared by a person who stated Clibbery was his father and whose title can be James Clibbery. (The elder James Clibbery appeared to go by his center title, Brett, based mostly on the vlogs that he and Packwood used to usually movie and publish on their YouTube channel, referred to as Theros Adventures in reference to their yacht.)
“The previous few days have been very laborious. My father James Brett Clibbery , and his spouse, Sarah Justine Packwood have regrettably handed away,” the youthful James Clibbery stated within the July 13 put up. “There remains to be an investigation, in addition to a DNA check to verify, however with all of the information, it’s laborious to stay hopeful.”
The sailor’s son described his father and Packwood as “superb individuals” and stated “there is not something that can fill the opening that has been left by their, up to now unexplained passing.”
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The pair had been discovered dead in a 10-foot inflatable boat that had washed up onto the seashores of Sable Island, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police stated. Sable Island is a small protected island within the North Atlantic, nearly 200 miles from Halifax on the Nova Scotian coast. Investigators consider that the inflatable was a life boat as soon as connected to the bigger Theros yacht.
Canadian police stated investigators don’t consider their deaths had been “suspicious in nature.”
“Investigators from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police/Halifax Regional Police Integrated Criminal Investigation Division proceed to collect info and analyze proof in an effort to find out what could have occurred at sea,” police stated.
One concept, from the Canadian information website Saltwire, urged {that a} a lot greater vessel struck and broken the couple’s boat quickly after they launched into their journey from Halifax, forcing them to make use of the life raft. CBS News contacted the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for remark however didn’t obtain a right away response.
Clibbery and Packwood had been avid vacationers and sailors who over the previous couple of years had documented numerous journeys all over the world collectively, together with some large crusing excursions, on their YouTube channel.
They teased their transatlantic voyage from Halifax within the months main as much as their departure. In one video, posted on their channel in early April, Clibbery defined that they’d made upgrades and mechanical changes to the Theros forward of the then-upcoming crusing season. Those modifications included putting in an electrical motor — they spoke typically in earlier movies about decreasing their carbon footprint — fixing six photo voltaic panels to the boat as a way to cost the engine battery.
