Couple found dead weeks after setting off on trip across Atlantic
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c84jxgy8nmlo
Posted by Longjumping_Stand889
Couple found dead weeks after setting off on trip across Atlantic
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c84jxgy8nmlo
Posted by Longjumping_Stand889
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>In a video posted to their YouTube channel, Theros Adventures, the pair explained how their trip – dubbed the Green Odyssey – would rely on sails, solar panels, batteries and an electric engine repurposed from a car.
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>“We’re doing everything we can to show that you can travel without burning fossil fuels,” Mr Clibbery said in the video, posted on 12 April.
I’m guessing there’s a reason while most sail boats have something that burns fossil fuels. It tends to be quite reliable.
Oof found in their lifeboat, not a quick or nice way to go then 🥲
Died what they liked doing. There’s worse ways to die.
Couple found dead shortly after embarking on a foolish and dangerous task they did to “show off” something to someone.
No epirb. Why not? Has it’s own batteries and would alert emergency services instantly.
Not a very eco friendly yatch if it’s at the bottom of the ocean now…