Teenage sailor, Abby Sunderland, feared lost in Southern Ocean

8:56 PM Thu 10 Jun 2010 GMT

'Abby Sunderland departing Cape Town' .

The brother of Abby Sunderland, 16, feared lost at sea in her attempt to become the youngest sailor ever to circumnavigate the globe, said Thursday afternoon that Abby's boat was 'most likely not completely submerged.' A support crew lost contact with Abby, who was in heavy seas in the Southern Indian Ocean, early Thursday morning. Abby's mother, MaryAnne Sunderland, told ABC News that Abby manually activated two beacons sometime before 6 a.m. Pacific Time Thursday. Her brother, Zac Sunderland told KNX that the support crew was 'still trying to figure out the rescue situation.' 'There's two boats headed out to ...

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by ABC News