Death from misadventure

An inquest into a person’s disappearance while sailing along Australia’s southeast coast found he had “died from misadventure in the ocean”. We hadn’t heard that description before so we read on…

A retired deputy principal was sailing alone on Australia’s southern ocean when he disappeared and there was no sign of him when his yacht was discovered floating off NSW’s Far South Coast.

The inquest into the disappearance of 64-year-old Glenn Yates found he died from misadventure in the ocean off the coast of Eden, but what precisely happened to him was unable to be solved.

Mr Yates bought a 30-foot sailing yacht called ‘Bonne Idee’ and left Hobart, Tasmania on 13 November 2020 with the aim of sailing it to his home in northern NSW, Deputy State Coroner Stuart Devine said this week in his findings. – Full report