In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.
ABBY SUNDERLANDGoing up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.
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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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Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.
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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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When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.
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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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The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!
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One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.
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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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Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
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Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
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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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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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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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The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
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I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.
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