Explorer and filmmaker Tim Severin dies aged 80

Tim Severin made headlines around the world in 1976 when he sailed “The Brendan”, a replica eighth century leather-covered boat across the Atlantic to show St Brendan reached America before Columbus.
Explorer and filmmaker Tim Severin dies aged 80

Tim Severin, explorer, historian and writer, has passed away at the age of 80. Picture: Denis Minihane.

The renowned explorer, author and filmmaker, Tim Severin, has died. He was 80.

Born in India, schooled in England, and a resident of West Cork for several years, Severin retraced the journeys of Saint Brendan the Navigator, Sindbad the Sailor, Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses, Genghis Khan and Robinson Crusoe over the course of a remarkable career of global adventures.

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