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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris_ on June 10, 2010, 02:14:41 PM
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http://abcnews.go.com/2020/abby-sunderland-possibly-lost-sea/story?id=10877108
Abby Sunderland, 16, who is attempting to become the youngest sailor ever to circumnavigate the globe, was feared lost at sea today after her crew lost contact with her boat.
Abby Sunderland's age sparks debate over how young is too young.Jeff Casher, an engineer on Sunderland's support team, said two emergency beacons on her boat are now signaling she is in trouble.
Abby's mother, MaryAnne Sunderland, told ABC News that Abby manually activated two beacons around 6 a.m. Pacific Time Thursday.
A beacon designed to automatically go off when it contacts water had not been activated, she said.
Abby was in 20-25 foot waves at the time of last contact, with 35-knot winds, said MaryAnne Sunderland, who is due to give birth at the end of the month. She was shaken but focused on trying to get a rescue effort together.
The closest land to Abby's boat was Reunion Island, which is east of Madagascar. The nearest ship was 400 miles away. Rescuers were trying to contact the ship.
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Wasn't some kid killed by trying to set the youth record for flying across the US?
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Wasn't some kid killed by trying to set the youth record for flying across the US?
Yup. She was 12. And it wasn't just across the US; it was around the world. She crashed somewhere in Russia.
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I just heard a discussion about Abby a few days ago in the car....and did not hear all of it. The talk show host was asking people to call in and tell what they thought of a 16yo girl alone in a boat in the middle of the ocean and what they thought of her parents.
The radio host is a local guy....his comment was that he took his "tween" daughter camping for some "father-daughter bonding" time. They went fishing and she enjoyed that, but then would not eat the fish when he cooked it. He said she wanted him to order a pizza, and didn't understand they couldn't get pizza delivered to a state park campground. He said he didn't have to worry about his daughter ever wanting to go off and do something like Abby is doing ....she'd be too far from a Domino's.
I didn't hear any call-in comments. But it made me wonder not only about Abby but her parents.
My two children would have never even considered sailing across one ocean alone, let alone around the world. One - they would be afraid, and two - neither would be willing to give up their creature comforts to do so. Actually, I'm not sure it would even occur to either to do so. The younger one was perfectly content to sail a couple of seas aboard a Navy carrier for a couple of years.
As a mother, though....I would not even consider allowing my child to go across one of the Great Lakes on their own....around the world.. :rotf: :rotf: I recognize that once they turned 18 there wouldn't be much I could do about it. However....prior to them becoming a "legal adult", there is no way on God's little green earth, that I would allow it. If they tried it after becoming legal....I would be renting a yacht with a helicopter on it, and be hovering over the child the entire way!!
What the hell was this mother thinking? or NOT thinking? How could she have possibly not thought that she could lose her child to any number of catastrophic occurrences?
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It seems more questions than answers here...Has anyone heard from the parents? Does she have any?
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It seems more questions than answers here...Has anyone heard from the parents? Does she have any?
I read the article, at the link in the OP. The parents.....well, you can read for yourself. :whatever:
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This looks like here blog:
http://soloround.blogspot.com/
Brave kid.
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/3800550/Jet-joins-search-for-missing-teen-sailor
A Quantas airbus should be flying over soon, but the nearest ship is about forty hours out.
Apparently right after speaking to her father, she set off the boat's emergency beacon, then shortly after, set off her personal beacon, which means she is likely in the water. :(