HALIFAX — The British Columbia couple whose remains recently washed ashore on Nova Scotia's remote Sable Island have been identified as 70-year-old James Brett Clibbery and his 54-year-old wife, Sarah Packwood.
HALIFAX — The British Columbia couple whose remains recently washed ashore on Nova Scotia's remote Sable Island have been identified as 70-year-old James Brett Clibbery and his 54-year-old wife, Sarah Packwood.Spielman, a Calgary resident, says she's heard many theories about what happened to the adventurous couple after June 11 when they left Halifax harbour in a 13-metre sailboat en route to the Azores — a 3,200-kilometre journey.
Spielman declined to speculate on what went wrong, and the Mounties have said they are still investigating. On Monday, the RCMP confirmed they had identified Clibbery's body with the help of the province's medical examiner's office, but they declined to release his name, citing privacy legislation. The Mounties previously confirmed the couple's sailboat, Theros, was reported missing on June 18, and it wasn't until July 10 that their bodies were found in a three-metre inflatable boat on Sable Island, about 280 kilometres southeast of Halifax.
Clibbery and Packwood, who lived on B.C.'s Salt Spring Island, described themselves as adventure travellers and posted details of their voyages on a YouTube channel called Theros Adventures.
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