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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.

Abby Sunderland

One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Alone Around Dad Day One Year
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
Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Definition Sea World
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
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
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.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Drowning Eight Twenty Water
On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Birthday Eye Happening October Sixteenth
I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can’t wait for the chance to try again.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Again Change Trying Waiting World
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
When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Astonished Crazy Fear Joy Surging Two
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
The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
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heavy Inescapable Physic Sea
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.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Abilities Follow Great Parent Passion Trying
Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
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Brain Close Dying Fact Slowly
The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Building Stories Three

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