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Emergency Rescue Effort is Launched for Teen Sailor Abby Sunderland (16 years Old and Alone)
Grind TV ^ | 6/10/2010 | Grind TV

Posted on 06/10/2010 12:08:52 PM PDT by Dallas59



A rescue effort has been launched in hope of finding Abby Sunderland, 16, who set off her emergency beacon locating devices from the southern Indian Ocean early this morning.

Sunderland, who had been attempting to sail around the world alone, endured multiple knockdowns in 60-knot winds Thursday before conditions briefly abated.

However, her parents lost satellite phone contact early this morning and an hour later were notified by the Australian Coast Guard that both of Sunderland's EPIRB satellite devices had been activated.

One is apparently is attached to a survival suit or a life raft and meant to be used when a person is in the water or aboard a life raft.

Abby's father struggled with emotions and said he didn't know if his daughter was in a life raft or aboard the boat, or whether the boat was upside down.

"Everything seemed to be under control," Laurence Sunderland said. "But then our call dropped and a hour later the Coast Guard called."

Abby is hundreds of miles from land. The nearest ship was about 400 miles away. The rescue effort is being coordinated by the French-controlled Reunion Islands and Australia. Sunderland had been sailing in 50- to 60-foot seas and it was dark when the EPIRB devices were activated.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: lost; missing; ocean; rescue; sail; sailing; world
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To: Politicalmom

i thought that one was barred from going? not sure mind you but i thought that is what made the headlines


21 posted on 06/10/2010 12:25:09 PM PDT by DM1
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To: Dallas59


Abby Sunderland Sets Sail Video

22 posted on 06/10/2010 12:28:12 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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To: All

What happened to the 13 year old that wanted to do that, or is this her?


23 posted on 06/10/2010 12:28:44 PM PDT by jackibutterfly ( Palin is so under obama's skin, he hears 'Hail to the Chief' when he sees her.)
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To: DM1

Her brother did it when he was 17.

And an Aussie girl just completed her journey at 16 a few months ago.

Abby would have been the youngest by a few months. But she would not have been the only teenager to do this.


24 posted on 06/10/2010 12:28:59 PM PDT by jerry557
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To: Dallas59

Godspeed, kiddo.


25 posted on 06/10/2010 12:29:32 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (we shall overcome a generation of affirmative action.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
She had a good reception in Australia a while back. Hope she gets through this.

You have Abby mixed up with Jessica Watson, the 16 year old Australian girl who successfully completed her solo around the world trip by sailing into Sydney Harbor in May.

Abby was on her way to Australia from South Africa this past week.

26 posted on 06/10/2010 12:29:39 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: DM1

The Indian Ocean and anywhere near the tip of Africa are dangerous. They are all dangerous. I do not care how good a sailor she is. Man, woman, child - whatever. One mistake and the ocean will kill you and even no mistakes and it will get you.


27 posted on 06/10/2010 12:29:55 PM PDT by Frantzie (Democrats = Party of I*lam)
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To: buccaneer81

“Abby was on her way to Australia from South Africa this past week.”

Not a good place. Very dangerous.


28 posted on 06/10/2010 12:34:08 PM PDT by Frantzie (Democrats = Party of I*lam)
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To: rcrngroup
ping

Navy Hymn

29 posted on 06/10/2010 12:35:19 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: Dallas59

Mums and daddums should be dragged from their home and horse-whipped.


30 posted on 06/10/2010 12:37:44 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: DM1

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31 posted on 06/10/2010 12:39:14 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: Dallas59

Where can we find current Search and Rescue (SAR) about her? Any one know where the Rescue Coordination Center is working this case?


32 posted on 06/10/2010 12:43:07 PM PDT by Citizen Tom Paine (I will find a way or make a way.)
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To: DM1
I hate to think this but the parents were maybe trying to use her as a meal ticket. First 16 year old girl goes around the world: the book, on talk shows, the lifetime movie, the product endorsements. sad but you never know could be why they let her do it

Sadly, if she is lost, they can still do that.

33 posted on 06/10/2010 12:43:28 PM PDT by donna (We live in this fog of political correctness, where everything is perpetual deception.-John Hagee)
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To: DM1

Oh, what if this was planned?


34 posted on 06/10/2010 12:44:40 PM PDT by donna (We live in this fog of political correctness, where everything is perpetual deception.-John Hagee)
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Update:

California teen girl in trouble on solo world sail
By JOHN ANTCZAK (AP) – 51 minutes ago

LOS ANGELES — A 16-year-old Southern California girl attempting a solo sail around the world was feared in trouble Thursday in the frigid, heaving southern Indian Ocean after her emergency beacons began signaling and communication was lost.

Abby Sunderland’s family was talking with U.S. and international governments about organizing a search of the remote ocean between southern Africa and Australia, family spokesman Christian Pinkston said.

Conditions can quickly become perilous for any sailor exposed to the elements in that part of the world.
“We’ve got to get a plane out there quick,” said Pinkston, who was in close contact with Sunderland’s family in Thousand Oaks.

“They are exhausting every resource to try to mobilize an air rescue including discussions with the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Coast Guard and various international rescue organizations,” he said.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iNcCJg-kSyZBjLhEB3fRtcYzaQOgD9G8JCQO0


35 posted on 06/10/2010 12:57:00 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: Dallas59
The timing of Abby's trip was criticized by some because it was going to place her in the middle of the Indian Ocean when the stormy Southern Hemisphere winter was at hand.

Yep.

36 posted on 06/10/2010 12:59:09 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY ("The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen." -Dennis Prager)
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To: jerry557

It seems to me there was a boy who did it when he was a teenager back when I was also a teen, about 35 years ago. His story was in National Geographic. Or do I have false memory syndrome?


37 posted on 06/10/2010 1:00:44 PM PDT by stayathomemom (Beware of cat attacks while typing!)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Could not imagine circumnavigating the globe alone. When I fly over it, it looks enormous.....would never want to be alone in a boat in the middle of it.


38 posted on 06/10/2010 1:07:06 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Anti-Gunners suffer from Factose Intolerance)
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To: stayathomemom

Robin Lee Graham in 1965, at the age of 16, left on a five year round the world trip on the Dove.


39 posted on 06/10/2010 1:10:35 PM PDT by stayathomemom (Beware of cat attacks while typing!)
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To: stayathomemom
No. Remember reading those too.

Adventure = Bad things happening to someone else 1000 miles away.

40 posted on 06/10/2010 1:10:50 PM PDT by fireforeffect (A kind word and a 2x4, gets you more than just a kind word.)
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