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| "Abby Sunderland" |
Abigail Jillian "Abby"
Sunderland (born October 19, 1993) is an American sailor
who, in 2010, attempted to become the youngest person to sail solo around the
world, but failed.
In June 2010, 16-year-old Abby Sunderland
attempted to break the record for being the youngest person ever to complete a
solo sail around the world. But when she found herself stranded at sea after a
storm damaged her boat, Abby's life was saved by a NASA-developed Personal
Locator Beacon (PLB), which transmitted a distress signal to a Search and
Rescue (SARSAT) satellite, 22,500 miles away in space. On October 25, 2010,
Abby visited NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to meet the team that developed
this Search and Rescue technology more than 30 years ago.
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| "Abby Sunderland's route map" |
Sunderland was the subject of a documentary
film produced and directed by her father titled Wild Eyes: The Abby
Sunderland Story. The film was released on September 8, 2011
Sunderland released a book about her ordeal
on April 12, 2011. The book is co-written with Lynn Vincent and is titled Unsinkable:
A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas. She has been going on
book-signing tours, where it was revealed that she is taking flying lessons, to
be able to fly around the world.
