[OrangeHoof]

"We're not wealthy people," she said. "What price would you put on a child's life?"

Apparently the Aussies put more on it than her parents did.

[giotto]

They also display a lot more grace than the parents.

That girl must have an industrial strength guardian angel, which is the only reason she didn't end up as shark chow. She was knocked out by the wave that broke her mast and lay there unconscious for who knows how long. During a raging storm. God loves that child, and He protected her. I just have to wonder if her parents would have let her go, if she were their only child, rather than one of eight.