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Title: Russia deports Anchorage man who sailed dinghy across the Bering Sea
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Anchorage Daily News
URL Source: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anc ... -dinghy-across-the-bering-sea/
Published: Jan 31, 2019
Author: Michelle Theriault Boots
Post Date: 2019-01-31 22:25:45 by hondo68
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Views: 361
Comments: 5
Six months after he washed up on a Siberian beach, John Martin III is back in the United States. In July, Martin, an Anchorage fringe figure and homeless activist, set out from Emmonak in an attempt to sail an 8-foot dinghy across the Bering Sea. He planned to get to China to reunite with his wife and son, he said. Two weeks into the journey, he washed up on a beach on Russia’s Chukotka Peninsula instead. He had no passport, documents or money. He was held for months at a Siberian hospital undergoing legal proceedings. In December, he was taken to what he described as a “prison” in Moscow to await deportation, according to his website. “After nearly six weeks in the detention center in Moscow, the Russian government deported me back to the USA,” he wrote on his website. He arrived in Washington, D.C., on Monday. Martin III wrote that he’d be back in Alaska on Sunday.
John Martin says he sailed this 8-foot boat across the Bering Sea and hoped to reach China. He was detained in Russia and has been deported to the U.S. (Courtesy of Jerry Lamont)
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#2. To: hondo68 (#0)
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If he was sent back across the same general points of latitude and longitude that took him through the Bering Sea region to Siberia, I think it might possibly mean that he and his descendants thereafter could open a tax-free "Native American" casino here if they wanted to do that. /s
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