Six months later, Russia sent home resident of Alaska, who last summer crossed on a tiny vessel in the Bering sea and reached Chukotka.
John Martin. Source: No Ocean Too Wide
47-year-old John William Martin discovered 1 Aug. Two weeks ago he left Emmonak (a village about 500 miles West of anchorage) on a small boat, taking with him a bucket of salmon, bread, water and a pitcher of grape juice. If there were no money, no passport.
The man immediately took the Russian authorities, putting forward his version of how he came to Chukotka. According to the press Secretary of the Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, John Martin slipped out into the open sea, and then due to adverse weather conditions and lack of navigational AIDS came to Russia.
It was later revealed that Martin, who in the US protects the interests of the homeless, was in the Bering sea is no accident. But the way he kept on Chukotka, and the essence of the South — in China, where his wife and child. He told about it in his blog, No Ocean Too Wide on the journey.
During the trial, Martin spent several months in a Siberian hospital. According to him, in December he was transferred to a Moscow prison, where he remained for 6 weeks, then deported in the United States. The man arrived in Washington on January 28.
As it turned out, Martin has a criminal record. In 1995, when he was 23 years old, he was sentenced 8 years in prison for having sex with 15-year-old girl he and his wife adopted. According to the man, after the divorce he lost contact with his 3 children.
Then, through a Dating site Martin began a romantic relationship with a Chinese woman. He went to China, where in 2007, married his sweetheart. They had a son. In connection with the non-payment of alimony Martin was expelled from China. After that, he had the plan to go back to his new family on the boat.
