Necker Island (British Virgin Islands) would survive their castaway adventure for at least three weeks, but as McCullin later recounted, "because of our gathering weakness ... out of temper, and out of water, we hoisted the red flag and were taken off in the early hours of the fifteenth day". According to McCullin, there was nothing idyllic about the desert island: "The mosquitos and other insects were more venomous and persistent than any I had encountered in Vietnam or the Congo." Richard Branson's "Extreme Tech Challenge" has been hosted annually at Necker Island since 2015. Described as one of the largest technology competitions in the
Necker–Sharpe Funeral Home the United States School of Embalming in New York where he studied theoretical and practical aspects of embalming and undertaking. Immediately after graduation he opened an office on Bergenline Avenue in what was then Union HIll. He makes it a maxim of treating the poor with the same dignity as the rich. The buinesss was successful and soon after he had branches in West Hoboken and Guttenberg. By the beginning of the 20th century, Necker had more than twenty branches both in New York and New Jersey At its height, William Necker Inc., averaged about 5000 funerals a year. He