Travel To Spain - Teen Sailor Stranded in Indian Ocean rescue Teams Rush to Save Abby Sutherland,

That bid ended in April after Sunderland encountered problems nearing the half-way point of her journey. Continuing a round-trip journey that began as an attempt to be the youngest person to ever sail solo and non-stop around the world, wild Eyes, sunderland had been sailing alone in her 40-foot sailboat. Nearly a five-hour flight from the nearest point of land rescue, rescue boats are en route to rescue Abby Sunderland from waters in the southern Indian Ocean.

She had been out of contact with anyone until a commissioned jetliner flew to her location and was able to make close range radio contact with her. Which sent signals to maritime authorities that she was in trouble, sunderland activated two emergency beacons on her boat, roughly an hour after phone and radio contact had been lost. When she lost satellite phone contact with her parents in California, she had been in very high seas on Wednesday.

The mast and sail were dragging alongside the boat. And the keel was intact, the boat was still afloat however. Crippling the vessel and destroying her communications equipment, the mast of her boat snapped off, in the storm.

She seemed to be in good spirits and without serious injury, in her communication with the rescue flight. There are watertight compartments on the boat and Sunderland had an estimated two-week supply of food aboard the vessel.

Assuming that weather conditions will allow her to board one of the rescue boats, it is expected that rescue boats will reach her sometime on Saturday.