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Emergency rescue effort is launched for teen sailor Abby Sunderland
By: Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com
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. The Sunderlands are asking people to pray for their daughter, a high-school junior from Thousand Oaks, Calif.
(Abby Sunderland has to be one of the bravest 16 year olds on the planet. We know you can go on about how/why her parents let her go - but regardless she's gotta have guts. Our hope is that her boat got swamped and her vest and lifeboat both got wet and she drenched her satellite phone. Our thoughts are with her and her parents... Ed.)
Overcast to partly cloudy this morning, with 15 miles visibility. Winds started out on-shore and have been variable to 5.8kts all morning. The sea surface is lightly chopped to sparingly diced. The air temp at checkout time was 60.2° and the water was 63.1° at the buoy. It felt cooler in the surfline, but warmer beyond the break. High tide is at 9:30am +3.5' and low tide will follow at 1:51pm +2.2'. The buoy is reporting a W swell out of 263° at 4.3'. We're calling it 4' to 5' with head high outsides. It's supposed to stay windy today and then dial back a bit tomorrow and through the weekend. The surf is also supposed to get bigger over the next few days, so wax'em up and get ready...
Mailer: Re: Dr. Beach's 10 top Beaches...
(That's why the call him Dr. Beach and not Dr. Wave. We'll be back east this summer and one of our stated objectives is to check out at least one of his top ten picks on the east coast... Ed.)
"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
The Professor!!
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Emergency rescue effort is launched for teen sailor Abby Sunderland
By: Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com
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. The Sunderlands are asking people to pray for their daughter, a high-school junior from Thousand Oaks, Calif.
(Abby Sunderland has to be one of the bravest 16 year olds on the planet. We know you can go on about how/why her parents let her go - but regardless she's gotta have guts. Our hope is that her boat got swamped and her vest and lifeboat both got wet and she drenched her satellite phone. Our thoughts are with her and her parents... Ed.)
Overcast to partly cloudy this morning, with 15 miles visibility. Winds started out on-shore and have been variable to 5.8kts all morning. The sea surface is lightly chopped to sparingly diced. The air temp at checkout time was 60.2° and the water was 63.1° at the buoy. It felt cooler in the surfline, but warmer beyond the break. High tide is at 9:30am +3.5' and low tide will follow at 1:51pm +2.2'. The buoy is reporting a W swell out of 263° at 4.3'. We're calling it 4' to 5' with head high outsides. It's supposed to stay windy today and then dial back a bit tomorrow and through the weekend. The surf is also supposed to get bigger over the next few days, so wax'em up and get ready...
Mailer: Re: Dr. Beach's 10 top Beaches...
I notice that "Dr. Beach" does not include waves in his assessment. Forty dollar parking permit? Ouch! That makes RB look like a real deal.
Dangerboy(That's why the call him Dr. Beach and not Dr. Wave. We'll be back east this summer and one of our stated objectives is to check out at least one of his top ten picks on the east coast... Ed.)
"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
The Professor!!
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