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Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.

Abby Sunderland

The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!
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Building Stories Three
I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.
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Break Course Records World Sail Unassisted Youngest
Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.
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Dangerous Most Sailor Solo
Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
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Definition Sea World
It was amazing to see all the support that he got from around the world and to see how everyone worked together to help make his dream reality. Watching him do this really made me believe that I could too.
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Amazing Dream Got Make Support Together World
The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.
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Game Mental Ocean Past Physical
I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my passion and try to do something great, even if I might fail.
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Abilities Follow Great Parent Passion Trying
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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Feeling Home Indian Ocean Walking
Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
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Build Eye Feet High Speed Wall Water
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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Boat Broke Broken Cape Drifting Horn Ocean
When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there’s a massive sense of accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Adversity Crush Overcome Sailor
The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.
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Capability Human Sea Solo Unassisted Youngest
In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.
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Awful Dawned Lines Moment Perfectly Something
On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.
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Birthday Eye Happening October Sixteenth
The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder this time, like my insides were an open can of shaken soda and I was trying to keep it from bubbling up out of the top.
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Harder Panic Seriousness Soda Time Trying
Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
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CIrcumnavigated Globe People Solo Space Successfully

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