Teen sailor Abby Sunderland focus of emergency rescue effort

Pete Thomas Outdoors ^ | June 10, 2010 | Pete Thomas

[ml/nj]

I've been following Abby via her blog since she left California. I pray for her safety.

ML/NJ

[GeronL]

parental neglect

[Travis McGee]

The EPIRB will give a pretty good indication of her situation. They can tell by its GPS track if the boat is sailing, drifting, etc. Or if she’s in a raft or treading water. (Hopefully not.)

[brwnsuga]

God please keep this young lady safe. Amen

[Alberta's Child]

The timing of Abby's trip was criticized by some because it was placing her in the middle of the Indian Ocean when the stormy Southern Hemisphere winter was at hand.

I guess that could be a problem.

Starting out on a dogsled trip to the North Pole in October isn't exactly a good career move, either.

[houeto]

parental neglect

Not in my books. Prayers up.

[SJSAMPLE]

Prayers.
Remember Jessica Dubroff?

[cowboyway]

[al baby]

Heavenly Father: we pray to you for those on the perilous ocean that you will embrace them with your mighty protection and grant them success in all their rightful undertakings. Grant them in all hours of need to see that they have a God who remembers them, and grant them grace in the hour of danger to commit their souls into your hands. O Lord Jesus Christ, who can rebuke the storm and bring it to silence, and lay the roaring waves to rest, show them who call to you out of the deep that you hear their prayer and will save them. And finally bring us all to the only safe port. Amen.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Prayers for her safety.

[al baby]

I do but that was in a airplane what could go wrong on a sail boat

[pandoraou812]

Prayers for Abby

[Locomotive Breath]

Funny remark from someone whose tag line is “Political Correctness Kills”.

[Alberta's Child]

what could go wrong on a sail boat

ROFL. Was that a joke?

[central_va]

who had been attempting to sail around the world alone,

I wouldn't attempt that in anything less than a destroyer....

[diverteach]

I too have been following her daily progress on her blog. Her last entry mentioned foul weather, but nothing like what this article mentions.

Prayers up for sure!

[al baby]

Yes

[BwanaNdege]

“Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous but like the sea, is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect.”

[Wilderness Conservative]

I wonder if the parents or the “teen sailor” ever considered pirates.

[RedMDer]

Prayers for Abby.