Sailors' shooting deaths - Yachting community grieves as pirates exult

12:46 PM Wed 23 Feb 2011 GMT

'Jean and Scott Adam pose beside their yacht Quest in happier times' .

The yachting community world wide has been horrified and appalled by the shooting of four cruising sailors in the Indian Ocean this week, see Sail-World story . It has taken the dangers for cruising sailors crossing the Indian Ocean to a new level, and, according to TTT Rally leader, Rene Tiemessen, whose rally had been turned down for an escort, there are still around 100 yachts attempting the crossing. 'It's not over yet,' he commented by satellite to me after the tragedy. In the meantime, the Blue Water Rally, with whom the four had been travelling since leaving Australia until they left ...

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by Nancy Knudsen