But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.
ABBY SUNDERLAND
On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.
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But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.
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When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.
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There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, “Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right.”
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Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
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The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
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Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
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The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!
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I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn’t likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.
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Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
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If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.
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I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again.
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I’m one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth.
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I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can’t wait for the chance to try again.
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