Anchorage Man in Dinghy Arrested in Russia After Drifting Across Bering Sea

Anchorage Man in Dinghy Arrested in Russia After Drifting Across Bering Sea

An exhausted 72-year-old Anchorage man was arrested upon his arrival near the Russian community of Lavrentiya recently after floating across the Bering Sea to make landfall there. Russian media reported that 72-year-old John Martin of Anchorage was discovered on Russia’s eastern coast in the Chukotka region on Wednesday by border guards. When contacted by authorities in […]