Six months later, Russia sent home resident of Alaska, who crossed last summer on a tiny boat 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 began 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 on purpose. 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.
Martin spent several months in a Siberian hospital, lasted until trial. According to him, in December he was transported in a Moscow prison, where he remained for 6 weeks, then deported in the United States. The man flew to Washington on January 28.
As it turned out, Martin has a criminal record. In 1995, when he was 23 years old, he spent 8 years in prison for having sex with 15-year-old child whom they had adopted with his wife. According to the man, he lost contact with his three children after the divorce with his wife.
Then, through a Dating site Martin began a romantic relationship with a Chinese woman. He went to China, where in 2007 he married his sweetheart, and they had a son. Due to non-payment of alimony, the U.S. government recalled Martin back. After that, he had the plan to go to China on a boat.
