Moscow: US man accidentally sails to Russia from Alaska

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Posted: 8/3/2018 8:27:59 PM EDT

MOSCOW — A U.S. citizen has been detained in Russia’s Far East after accidentally sailing there from Alaska on a small boat, officials said Friday.

John Martin had been traveling down the Yukon River across Alaska on a one-person boat when he ended up in the open Bering Sea, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. He spent several days at sea in bad weather and eventually washed up on Russian shores.

Martin, who lives in Anchorage, was detained Wednesday by Russian officials in the Far Eastern region of Chukotka. The U.S. Consulate in Vladivostok was informed about the incident.

Zakharova told reporters Friday in Moscow that Martin’s condition was “satisfactory.”

Mathew Hagengruber, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, said it was working with local authorities to provide assistance to Martin.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/us-man-sails-russia-alaska/

Posted: 8/3/2018 8:29:09 PM EDT

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I'm surprised it doesn't happen more.

Posted: 8/3/2018 8:32:13 PM EDT

[#2]

broken compass?

Posted: 8/3/2018 8:33:14 PM EDT

[#3]

That's quite the adventure.

Posted: 8/3/2018 8:34:22 PM EDT

[#4]

Idiot.

Posted: 8/3/2018 8:35:39 PM EDT

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When you're in a small boat in the Bering Sea in bad weather conditions, you go where the wind and current takes you.

I don't imagine he had much choice in the matter.

Posted: 8/3/2018 8:36:06 PM EDT

[#6]

Sarah Palin should go rescue him. It's in her back yard.

Posted: 8/3/2018 8:36:49 PM EDT

[#7]

Now the weather is colluding with the Russians!

Posted: 8/3/2018 8:40:16 PM EDT

[#8]

In the old days, he would not be heard from again.

Posted: 8/3/2018 8:44:39 PM EDT

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No the Bearing sea..it is one nasty place to be.....especially in a storm let alone in a tiny sailboat..

Posted: 8/3/2018 8:46:12 PM EDT

[#10]

He’ll get loved, tenderly

Posted: 8/3/2018 8:47:32 PM EDT

[#11]

Extremely poor planning. What was his exit plan? How the hell was he even close to mouth of that river that far north. Idiot. Darwin and all that.

Posted: 8/3/2018 8:49:27 PM EDT

[#12]

Trump's fault...

Posted: 8/3/2018 8:50:49 PM EDT

[#13]

he took a plan without a dump

Posted: 8/3/2018 8:50:57 PM EDT

[#14]

The Bering Sea with bad weather in a 1 man boat. That would pucker your butthole nice and tight. Holy shit.

Posted: 8/3/2018 8:51:29 PM EDT

[#15]

Must be a native of the Wheredafuckarwe tribe.

Posted: 8/3/2018 8:51:47 PM EDT

[#16]

I wonder what he knows about Hillary.

Posted: 8/3/2018 8:54:21 PM EDT

[#17]

That's easy, you can see Russia from there!

Posted: 8/3/2018 8:56:49 PM EDT

[#18]

Wonder what's piccolo's take on this?

Posted: 8/3/2018 8:58:20 PM EDT

[#19]

Deadliest catch.

Posted: 8/3/2018 9:01:28 PM EDT

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I thought that was the Aids?

Posted: 8/3/2018 9:08:34 PM EDT

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People laugh about that, but it's under 260 miles across the straight from the Yukon, and under 60 at the closest point from wales Alaska to Russia.

From Nome it's almost 2000 miles to the closest point of America in the lower 48.

Posted: 8/3/2018 9:09:48 PM EDT

[#22]

Oops

Posted: 8/3/2018 9:12:09 PM EDT

[#23]

When you are in the Bearing sea, you are in bad weather.

Posted: 8/3/2018 9:15:39 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/3/2018 9:18:36 PM EDT

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This.

Posted: 8/3/2018 9:20:09 PM EDT

[#26]

When I worked in Alaska you would have people travelling from Russia over to Alaska to buy items. It was surreal.

Posted: 8/3/2018 9:22:58 PM EDT

[#27]

I Can See Russia From My House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noSw5iZ8fLA

Posted: 8/3/2018 9:23:20 PM EDT

[#28]

When I worked in Kotzebue Alaska you would have people travelling from Russia over to Alaska to buy items. It was surreal. We were completing airborne geophysical surveys on the most westward part of Alaska and you could easily see Russia from the air.

Posted: 8/3/2018 9:24:11 PM EDT

[#29]

The Americans Are Coming, The Americans Are Coming.

Posted: 8/3/2018 9:25:22 PM EDT

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Probably visiting relatives also...when Imperial Russia sold us the Alaska territory, there were some Russian settlers that remained and became US citizens, eventually.

They still have strong links with the Motherland and the Russian Orthodox Church.

Posted: 8/3/2018 9:25:51 PM EDT

[#31]

" OOPS "

Posted: 8/3/2018 9:28:17 PM EDT

[#32]

Really bad weather.
He won't get in any trouble, there are international laws and treaties on boats in danger seeking safety.
"Any port in a storm" isn't just an excuse for what you brought home as the bar was closing.

Posted: 8/3/2018 9:36:25 PM EDT

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Absolutely. Off to Kolyma to the goldmines.

Posted: 8/3/2018 9:36:40 PM EDT

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I'm sure he was just fleeing the the US due to persecution and human rights violations.

The Russians will likely find him a free place to live, provide income, health care and make him a citizen. Right?

Posted: 8/3/2018 9:40:42 PM EDT

[#35]

We all know he's a secret messenger sent by trump to pass some secret take over the USA shit to putin. Rrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeee

Posted: 8/3/2018 9:41:57 PM EDT

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In soviet russia, the plan takes a dump on you.

Posted: 8/3/2018 9:42:52 PM EDT

[#37]

The man is blessed to have survived the trip.

Posted: 8/3/2018 9:43:53 PM EDT

[#38]

I lived in Bethell and worked in the YK Delta a few summers. I could easily see how this happened. Still, the guys a moron.

Posted: 8/3/2018 9:45:23 PM EDT

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Yep. Shocked he survived.

Posted: 8/3/2018 10:05:55 PM EDT

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While I lived up there, I've moose hunted with my boat on the Yukon a couple times.

One person in a small boat with no kicker motor getting to the mouth and then to Russia, he is the luckiest person in the world to be still alive.

The Yukon is not a river for a leisurely trip.

Posted: 8/3/2018 10:08:19 PM EDT

[#41]

Cool story.

Way better than the story I heard about an American ice climber who got picked up by Russian fishermen.

Posted: 8/3/2018 10:08:37 PM EDT

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Back in the 70's, a couple friends of mine were captured by the commies when their tugboat cross the line in the Bering straights. Ty and Tigger Toms, or something like that.

I think the Russians were glad to get rid of them as they turned into fundamentalist Bible thumpers, preaching fire and brimstone unto the Godless commies.

There are lots of stories, of cross border trips each way over the decades. Strong family ties, and all that. Stories of found soviet issue hardware in Alaska, too.

Posted: 8/3/2018 10:23:30 PM EDT

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Tina Fey said it, not Sarah.

Posted: 8/3/2018 10:27:31 PM EDT

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Probably visiting relatives also...when Imperial Russia sold us the Alaska territory, there were some Russian settlers that remained and became US citizens, eventually.

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Not really. The natives in western AK have Russian surnames and are Orthodox but by and large have zero Russian admixture. The most common ethnic Russians are the "Old Believers" on the Kenai Peninsula and Kodiak who came over in the 20th century.

Posted: 8/3/2018 10:34:21 PM EDT

[#45]

Maybe we can trade him for those four jackholes that were busted poaching reds a few days ago lol.

Posted: 8/3/2018 10:35:55 PM EDT

[#46]

Suicide mission? The big ol' crab boats have issues in the bering sea/bering straights.....

Posted: 8/3/2018 10:37:38 PM EDT

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People laugh about that, but it's under 260 miles across the straight from the Yukon, and under 60 at the closest point from wales Alaska to Russia.

From Nome it's almost 2000 miles to the closest point of America in the lower 48.

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That's easy, you can see Russia from there!

People laugh about that, but it's under 260 miles across the straight from the Yukon, and under 60 at the closest point from wales Alaska to Russia.

From Nome it's almost 2000 miles to the closest point of America in the lower 48.

distance between Little Diomede USA and Big Diomede Russia, the two islands are only about 4 km (2.5 mi)

Posted: 8/3/2018 10:38:10 PM EDT

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Now this man will be sentenced to the death camps of the evil dictator Vladimir Putin, whose abuses of human rights continue to terrorize at-risk communities worldwide

Posted: 8/3/2018 10:38:58 PM EDT

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Not really. The natives in western AK have Russian surnames and are Orthodox but by and large have zero Russian admixture. The most common ethnic Russians are the "Old Believers" on the Kenai Peninsula and Kodiak who came over in the 20th century.

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Probably visiting relatives also...when Imperial Russia sold us the Alaska territory, there were some Russian settlers that remained and became US citizens, eventually.

They still have strong links with the Motherland and the Russian Orthodox Church.

Not really. The natives in western AK have Russian surnames and are Orthodox but by and large have zero Russian admixture. The most common ethnic Russians are the "Old Believers" on the Kenai Peninsula and Kodiak who came over in the 20th century.

Well, you'd know better than me, my info is dated to say the least.

My last visit was 1983...I need to fix that.

Posted: 8/3/2018 10:41:27 PM EDT

[#50]

SO I GUESS YOU CAN SEE RUSSIA FROM YOUR HOUSE

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