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Desperate search for 16-year-old lone US sailor Abby Sunderland
Abby Sunderland activated her emergency beacons in stormy seas, 2000 miles off Madagascar, today, and her parents have lost satellite phone contact with her boat, Wild Eyes

  a.. guardian.co.uk, Thursday 10 June 2010 23.17 BST 
  a.. Article history
 Abby Sunderland, 16, leaves California for her solo around the world journey. Contact has now been lost with her in the Indian Ocean. Photograph: Richard Hartog/AP 
Rescuers launched a desperate search tonight for a 16-year-old California girl attempting to sail round the world single-handed, after she set off distress beacons in stormy conditions in a remote part of the Indian ocean.

Abby Sunderland's parents lost satellite phone contact with her today after she had told them she was repeatedly knocked down in 60 knot-winds and 50 foot seas, about 2,000 miles east of Madagascar. An hour later the US coast guard notified them that two emergency satellite beacons on her 40ft yacht, Wild Eyes, had been activated.

One of the devices is believed to be attached to a survival suit and designed to be set off by a person in the water, or on a life raft. Both beacons were manually activated. Rescuers were seeking to contact the nearest ship, 400 miles away.
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