Abby Sunderland - the final minutes

10:16 PM Fri 2 Jul 2010 GMT

'Abby rescue - Source: The Australian' .

Sixteen-year-old adventure sailor Abby Sunderland told the detail of her rescue to the world's press when she arrived back in Marina del Rey in Los Angeles this week. She described how she blacked out when a giant wave smashed her yacht's mast to pieces in the remote southern Indian Ocean. Now safely home after her dramatic high-seas rescue, Sunderland today recounted the moment her dream of becoming the youngest to sail the globe alone came to a sudden, violent end. Sunderland was below deck fixing her engine when a 'rogue wave' struck her yacht, Wild Eyes, on June 10. 'The ...

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