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Bodies of thrill-seeking couple mysteriously found in life raft after duo set out on ocean sailing trip more than a month ago

The bodies of a sensational Canadian couple were found in a life raft on Wednesday, nearly six weeks after they set out on a sailing trip across the Atlantic Ocean, a report said.

Brett Clibbery, 70, and Sarah Justine Packwood, 54, apparently abandoned their yacht and died on a life raft before washing ashore on Sable Island, nicknamed the “Graveyard of the Atlantic,” the Vancouver Sun reported.

Canadian authorities have not yet officially identified the tragic couple as the victims, but told the site that the 10-foot life raft was believed to have come from a larger vessel called Theros — the same eco-friendly boat the couple routinely described on their travel blog account.

Brett Clibber and Sarah Justine Packwood abandoned their yacht and died on a life raft. Facebook/James Brett Clibbery

Clibbery and Packwood left Halifax on June 11 in the 39-foot yacht, planning to cross the Atlantic Ocean to the Azores, an archipelago 900 miles west of Portugal, by July 2.

The couple documented their journey on their YouTube channel ‘Theros Adventures’, where they show how to travel around the world on electric, wind and solar powered vessels.

Their trip to the Azores would be the first completely “green” voyage on Theros, which the couple named the Green Odyssey after removing the diesel engine.

In 2019, they had already attempted to cross the Atlantic Ocean in the boat, but they were stopped by a predicted storm.

The couple planned to cross the Atlantic Ocean to the Azores in Portugal. YouTube/Theros Adventures

On the day of their trip, Clibbery and Packwood shared a video showing them 16 nautical miles off the coast of Nova Scotia, with favorable winds and calm seas.

The video was their last. A week later they were reported missing.

Sable Island is located approximately 280 kilometres south of Halifax.

Theros is still missing, the Times Colonist reports.

The couple ran a YouTube channel about sailing to document their adventures. YouTube/Theros Adventures

What went wrong and why the couple left their beloved boat behind remains a mystery.

The couple married on the yacht in 2016, a year after they met by chance at a bus stop in London, England.

Packwood was preparing to donate a kidney to her sister when she met Clibbery, who was visiting from Canada — a heartwarming story that was the focus of a 2020 article in The Guardian titled “How We Met.”

“We’ve been traveling and creating adventures together ever since,” Packwood previously posted on YouTube.

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