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Thats right thanks, forgot.
I know from experience that to let a location like this go means only one thing .....trouble.
Dick Smith is owned by WOW has been for decades
Polish President, Lech Kaczynski his wife and senior members of his Government are thought to have been killed in a plane crash: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8612825.stm
It has been reported from Whitehaven, Cumbria in the Lake District in England, that a Taxi driver has gone berserk and shot dead 11 people. He is still on the loose having abandoned his car. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7459669.stm
The number of people confirmed killed has risen to 12 with unconfirmed reports citing total number as 25.
Shows just how perilous a sailing journey can be.
Abby Sunderland (16yo) who is trying to complete a round the world solo yacht trip activated two EPIRBs yesterday. She is in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
It looks like she suffered several knockdowns and then no contact. Search and Rescue are trying to get a visual; ships are still a day away from the EPIRB location.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abby_Sunderland
Why do parents allow 16 year old's to sail solo around the world?
Why do parents allow 16 year old's to sail solo around the world?
Veteran Australian sailor Ian Kiernan, who held the Australian record for solo circumnavigation of the world, said Sunderland's trip was badly planned, given the mountainous seas and huge wind strengths of winter in the area.
"I don't know what she's doing in the Southern Ocean as a 16-year-old in the middle of winter. It's foolhardy," Kiernan said.
Sunderland had hoped to become the youngest sailor to circumnavigate the globe alone nonstop but had to give up her chance at that record when she was forced to pull into a port at Cape Town, South Africa, for repairs to her boat.
Her parents have been criticized by some in the media for allowing her to undertake the solo voyage at 16. Sailing experts have said that she was ill-advised to leave California in January, because she risked arriving in the Indian Ocean at the start of the winter season.
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