A family spokesman says searchers have contacted Abby Sunderland, the 16-year-old Southern California girl trying to become the youngest person to sail alone around the world, who was feared lost at sea and she is alive and well.
William Bennett with "Team Abby" said Thursday that searchers aboard an Airbus A330 spotted her boat in an upright position and made contact with her via radio. Speaking outside the family's Thousand Oaks home, Bennett said Sunderland said she was inside the boat and doing fine with at least two weeks worth of food.
Bennett said the mast had broken off the disabled boat.
He said a fishing vessel was en route to pick her up. The vessel is expected to reach her in about 40 hours.
Abby's father, Laurence Sunderland, a ship builder, said Abby's boat had drifted 1 knot since the beacon was activated, which he says is a sign that it may have hit a submerged object, lost its keel and capsized.
Sunderland last spoke to Abby Thursday morning by satellite phone after her yacht, Wild Eyes, was knocked around in 60-knot winds and 25-foot seas.
"She was pretty rattled. She'd had a bad night," Sunderland said.
He talked her through restarting her engine, so she could heat the boat, then lost contact. A half-hour later, he got a call from the U.S. Coast Guard saying her emergency beacon had been activated. A while later, a second beacon was activated. One was a manual beacon on the boat, and the other is a handheld beacon. Both would have to be hand-triggered, Sunderland said.
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Abby embarked on the round-the-world trip Jan. 23, hoping to beat the record for youngest solo circumnavigator set in July 2009 by her brother Zac at age 17. She quickly ran into technical difficulties that forced her to dock at Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, and again in Cape Town, South Africa.
Sunderland said French authorities on Reunion Island diverted a fishing vessel to Abby's location, but it won't arrive until early Saturday. Australian authorities planned to send a Qantas Airbus over her location to do a visual assessment and possibly make radio contact at first light today, he said. The nearest land is the Kerguelen Islands, 520 miles to the southwest.
Sunderland's brother said the boat was most likely not completely submerged because another beacon would be automatically triggered at a depth of 15 feet.
Derrick Fries, a U.S. sailing instruction and safety expert, told the Associated Press that Abby would have to be wearing a dry suit "to have any chance" of survival.
"To be capsized in the middle of the ocean with waves crashing relentlessly down, not just for hours, but days, I can't tell you how difficult those conditions are," he said.
The yacht has solar panels and wind generators to power autopilots and other electronics. Satellite communication has allowed Abby to stay in touch with her support team in California and to blog about her trip.
In her most recent blog post, Wednesday, she wrote, "I am expecting that by midnight tonight I could have 35-50 knots with gusts to 60 so I am off to sleep before it really picks up."
Recently, Abby wrote about when water rushed into the cabin and she had to climb out over the heaving waves to release a sail.
"After the initial horror of seeing water pouring into your boat, your mind just goes into a survival mode and you don't give fear or any new problems a thought," she wrote. "Fear becomes dangerous, it makes you hesitant to deal with things and knocks your confidence."
Abby is equipped to survive a crisis, according to a message posted by her team to her blog. She has a dry suit, survival suit, life raft and emergency supplies. "If she can keep warm and hang on, help will be there as soon as possible," the post reads.
Teen lost at sea contacted, safe
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The good skin needs good menu
1,Hand scroll of romaine lettuce
Material: One stretch of romaine lettuces, half a tomato, one slice of laver, right amount of of mayonnaise.
Make:
1.Clean romaine lettuce and tomato, and slice the tomato;
2.Spread the laver first, at rank sequentially romaine lettuce, tomato and then;
3.Drench the mayonnaise, roll up.
2,Yoghurt of cucumber
Material: Half a cucumber, half an orange, 100 ml of yoghurt, 100 ml of mineral water, a spoon of malt.
Make:
1.The cucumber is peeled, cut small one;
2.After the orange is peeled, put the juice extractor to press into the orange juice;
3.Stir the orange juice and cucumber lump together; Fight and add the yoghurt, mineral water and malt, it is even to stir.
3,Honeyed juice of the water-melon
Material: 100 grams of water-melons, 100 ml of cold boiled water, a spoon of honey.
Make:
1.Cut one after the water-melon is peeled;
2.Put water-melon and honey into mixer together and stir it evenly;
3.Quench into the cup, add the cold boiled water and continue stiring, can eat after stiring evenly.
4,Fresh peach milk of banana
Material: Half a banana, 1 fresh peach, fresh milk old mouth ml, appropriate amount of candy.
Make:
1.The banana is peeled, cut several sections;
2.The fresh peach is cleaned, peeled, enucleate, cut small one;
3.Will cut the fruit well to put into the mixer and stir for about 40 seconds; Fight and quench the fruit juice into into, add the candy and fresh milk, it is even to stir.
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Material: One stretch of romaine lettuces, half a tomato, one slice of laver, right amount of of mayonnaise.
Make:
1.Clean romaine lettuce and tomato, and slice the tomato;
2.Spread the laver first, at rank sequentially romaine lettuce, tomato and then;
3.Drench the mayonnaise, roll up.
2,Yoghurt of cucumber
Material: Half a cucumber, half an orange, 100 ml of yoghurt, 100 ml of mineral water, a spoon of malt.
Make:
1.The cucumber is peeled, cut small one;
2.After the orange is peeled, put the juice extractor to press into the orange juice;
3.Stir the orange juice and cucumber lump together; Fight and add the yoghurt, mineral water and malt, it is even to stir.
3,Honeyed juice of the water-melon
Material: 100 grams of water-melons, 100 ml of cold boiled water, a spoon of honey.
Make:
1.Cut one after the water-melon is peeled;
2.Put water-melon and honey into mixer together and stir it evenly;
3.Quench into the cup, add the cold boiled water and continue stiring, can eat after stiring evenly.
4,Fresh peach milk of banana
Material: Half a banana, 1 fresh peach, fresh milk old mouth ml, appropriate amount of candy.
Make:
1.The banana is peeled, cut several sections;
2.The fresh peach is cleaned, peeled, enucleate, cut small one;
3.Will cut the fruit well to put into the mixer and stir for about 40 seconds; Fight and quench the fruit juice into into, add the candy and fresh milk, it is even to stir.
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river light
Hear the song of some old times once in a while. " whether flowing water float light " film music of " blue and green snake " among them. Melodious and mild and indirect, charming and classical. Let brain of me appear one put river at the light, magnificent and end dreary scene.
"The river light put Send it into Heihe River, let the consolation of light be lonely. Indulge in the ghost in the river bed, this is a luxurious dinner. The river light is a raw hope, take it, keep away from painful drifting. Shake, shake, it is the ghost in the river bed that is climbing it upwards. Bright sometimes, dark sometimes, it is the breathing of the ghost that has alarmed the lights "
Such as the river light of the lotus, also shout and free lotuses, every spirit's section, when black " free captive animals " at night Go to the river, make river soul that know which way to go those, through taking the picture guiding of the light, have the way and live again. It is said, die so long as soul climp up one lotus flower, all right reincarnation. The persons who free captive animals grieve the dead, pray for blessings for the relative by this way.
On " face water take, spend people ", Xiao Hong equating with Lin Daiyu and Zhang Ailing it Cheng Li eyebrow, in her legendary masterpiece " river biography of Hulan ", have written the classical characters about the river light, praised by Lin QingXuan " to describe and put the most cultured and most beautiful one of river light in the literary works. "
When this light comes, gold is urgent, all on, add the audience with ten million people again, this move is really out of the ordinary. The amount of light of river, the figure of knowing what's what is probably several lots and lots of. Two children on the bank, clap hands to applaud, stamp one's foot to welcome. The adults have all found out the god, do not say a word, intoxicated in the river color of light. The light shines so that the river is faint and shiny. The moon in the sky jumps from water. What generation it is really life, there is so good a situation. The river light flowed over for a long time after flowing for a long time from the upper reaches several lies long. Having flowed for a long time and flowed over for a long time again, in this course, some flow to the midway to die. Some are dashed to the bank, the place to grow the weeds at the bank has been hung. Have light first-class to get obscene river whenever, some child hold bamboo pole pay special attention to it, some fishing boats have fetched one or two conveniently too. Later on the river light is more and more sparse. Get to Meng to go obscenely, show the bleak and desolate and lonely appearance comes, because flow less and less. Go to the distant place, it seems that the river there has turned black too, and lack one flowing. When the river light comes over from the upper reaches, though there are many to fall behind on the road, there are drowned many too, but has not thought all the time the river light is the feeling that has gone asked by the spirits.
It is on this river light, flow from the distant place of the upper reaches, people are filled with joy, when flow through oneself is still nothing too, reach end only, river that light flow arrive extremely far obscene go, make, watch river people of light, whom heart have no way of come on hollow: "That river light, where to float on earth? "
" light of the lotus ": If my heart is a lotus flower, hold up a piece of wax lighted in the centre, it is that that cuts light only to be glimmering and glimmering, it is brilliant that I want its proud holding out too. Not afraid it is only my own lotus light, shine rugged life before and after disappearing, drift along it in accordance with wave to adhere to sea of faces, bright to become it secret of heart secretly. That flash, spend one only, roll rivers away from like one leaf light barge, transfer to it float wave in destiny well up only, wait in those a burst of wind direction distant place and push away and send. Can be regarded as and done transient guest once in the universe, know this exquisite growing calm death, this way of moving swiftly is one, only dreams beautiful.
"The river light put Send it into Heihe River, let the consolation of light be lonely. Indulge in the ghost in the river bed, this is a luxurious dinner. The river light is a raw hope, take it, keep away from painful drifting. Shake, shake, it is the ghost in the river bed that is climbing it upwards. Bright sometimes, dark sometimes, it is the breathing of the ghost that has alarmed the lights "
Such as the river light of the lotus, also shout and free lotuses, every spirit's section, when black " free captive animals " at night Go to the river, make river soul that know which way to go those, through taking the picture guiding of the light, have the way and live again. It is said, die so long as soul climp up one lotus flower, all right reincarnation. The persons who free captive animals grieve the dead, pray for blessings for the relative by this way.
On " face water take, spend people ", Xiao Hong equating with Lin Daiyu and Zhang Ailing it Cheng Li eyebrow, in her legendary masterpiece " river biography of Hulan ", have written the classical characters about the river light, praised by Lin QingXuan " to describe and put the most cultured and most beautiful one of river light in the literary works. "
When this light comes, gold is urgent, all on, add the audience with ten million people again, this move is really out of the ordinary. The amount of light of river, the figure of knowing what's what is probably several lots and lots of. Two children on the bank, clap hands to applaud, stamp one's foot to welcome. The adults have all found out the god, do not say a word, intoxicated in the river color of light. The light shines so that the river is faint and shiny. The moon in the sky jumps from water. What generation it is really life, there is so good a situation. The river light flowed over for a long time after flowing for a long time from the upper reaches several lies long. Having flowed for a long time and flowed over for a long time again, in this course, some flow to the midway to die. Some are dashed to the bank, the place to grow the weeds at the bank has been hung. Have light first-class to get obscene river whenever, some child hold bamboo pole pay special attention to it, some fishing boats have fetched one or two conveniently too. Later on the river light is more and more sparse. Get to Meng to go obscenely, show the bleak and desolate and lonely appearance comes, because flow less and less. Go to the distant place, it seems that the river there has turned black too, and lack one flowing. When the river light comes over from the upper reaches, though there are many to fall behind on the road, there are drowned many too, but has not thought all the time the river light is the feeling that has gone asked by the spirits.
It is on this river light, flow from the distant place of the upper reaches, people are filled with joy, when flow through oneself is still nothing too, reach end only, river that light flow arrive extremely far obscene go, make, watch river people of light, whom heart have no way of come on hollow: "That river light, where to float on earth? "
" light of the lotus ": If my heart is a lotus flower, hold up a piece of wax lighted in the centre, it is that that cuts light only to be glimmering and glimmering, it is brilliant that I want its proud holding out too. Not afraid it is only my own lotus light, shine rugged life before and after disappearing, drift along it in accordance with wave to adhere to sea of faces, bright to become it secret of heart secretly. That flash, spend one only, roll rivers away from like one leaf light barge, transfer to it float wave in destiny well up only, wait in those a burst of wind direction distant place and push away and send. Can be regarded as and done transient guest once in the universe, know this exquisite growing calm death, this way of moving swiftly is one, only dreams beautiful.
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Life is continuing
Woken up by a telephone at three o'clock at midnight, the brain after the telephone is sober too after finishing answering, fall asleep again, toss and turn several round, determine, get up simply, produce, get up new record this year, three o'clock at midnight.
A glass of water is drunk to think of going downstairs to go bankrupt, afraid of noisy family, want to wipe the floor, feel that there is nerve like this, want to make a facial film, is afraid of being frightened oneself. Want to continue going to bed, unreconciled. Eh, get up what does it do, pieces of serious problem at midnight.
Renounce the world splendidly a lot of idea, deny one by one oneself, toss about to sit, get back to these computer one yard of words finally, this is really clicked. Yes, have not written for a long time for a long time.
Open the window, attack a burst of fresh air in one's face, the spiritual head is getting good at once, can hear cleaner's auntie sweep the voice that the lane son rustles, can also hear the cry chirpily of a lot of birds, the sweat, I have never known that there are so many birds at one's side. Busy life always lets people forget the happiness of a lot of details.
After to coming back in Xiamen, did not rest for each week, just finished walking at this station, rush for the next stop without a single halt, the time to play has been smoked more, the work load at ordinary times thereupon increases too, sleep from the 7 o'clock will it be 1 o'clock every day basically now. In much time, doing something quietly, sometimes there are not multiple languages very much in life.
Seeing those photos that I stuck, friends all come over to seek to ask me recent emotional life one after another, yes, coffee, red wine, the sea, candle light dinner These words with romantic breath should be spent with lover. Now, only want to enjoy the time of these, perhaps some day of some day, I can write the story of him and me.
It seems, write three word yet, it on being a little slightly bright, wait for it show a little more I right away go to wipe the floor, life is continuing, the floor is wiped all the same. Show some music, mixed with some outside the window chirpily of bird, taste any live other taste.
A glass of water is drunk to think of going downstairs to go bankrupt, afraid of noisy family, want to wipe the floor, feel that there is nerve like this, want to make a facial film, is afraid of being frightened oneself. Want to continue going to bed, unreconciled. Eh, get up what does it do, pieces of serious problem at midnight.
Renounce the world splendidly a lot of idea, deny one by one oneself, toss about to sit, get back to these computer one yard of words finally, this is really clicked. Yes, have not written for a long time for a long time.
Open the window, attack a burst of fresh air in one's face, the spiritual head is getting good at once, can hear cleaner's auntie sweep the voice that the lane son rustles, can also hear the cry chirpily of a lot of birds, the sweat, I have never known that there are so many birds at one's side. Busy life always lets people forget the happiness of a lot of details.
After to coming back in Xiamen, did not rest for each week, just finished walking at this station, rush for the next stop without a single halt, the time to play has been smoked more, the work load at ordinary times thereupon increases too, sleep from the 7 o'clock will it be 1 o'clock every day basically now. In much time, doing something quietly, sometimes there are not multiple languages very much in life.
Seeing those photos that I stuck, friends all come over to seek to ask me recent emotional life one after another, yes, coffee, red wine, the sea, candle light dinner These words with romantic breath should be spent with lover. Now, only want to enjoy the time of these, perhaps some day of some day, I can write the story of him and me.
It seems, write three word yet, it on being a little slightly bright, wait for it show a little more I right away go to wipe the floor, life is continuing, the floor is wiped all the same. Show some music, mixed with some outside the window chirpily of bird, taste any live other taste.
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