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One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.

Abby Sunderland

The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.
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Capability Human Sea Solo Unassisted Youngest
The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby’s boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below.
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Eye Piece Pushing Running Struggled Wind
When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.
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Astonished Crazy Fear Joy Surging Two
All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only you, the Creator, and His mercy.
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Creator Gear Ingenuity Jury Rigging Rip Sea
On June 10, the worst storm in the series swept across the middle of the Indian Ocean and Wild Eyes was directly in its path.
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Eye June Ocean Strom Swept
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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Drowning Eight Twenty Water
Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
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CIrcumnavigated Globe People Solo Space Successfully
It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their kids in the position to make important decisions, to aspire to great things, because they don’t want to put them in a position to fail.
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Decision Kids People Position Protected Today
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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Again Change Trying Waiting World
Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
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Definition Sea World
When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there’s a massive sense of accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Adversity Crush Overcome Sailor
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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Blue Boat Little Look Version Wall Watery
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
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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Marine Number Ocean Plate Right Weathered
Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
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Fall Ripped Sea Terror
One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
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Alone Around Dad Day One Year

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