American teen sailor rescued - GlobalTimes

Australian rescuers, who are coordinating the rescue, said weather in the area had improved slightly overnight, but Sunderland's yacht was still facing winds of up to 35 knots and swells of up to five meters.

Australian authorities monitored the yacht's location via its distress beacon. The teenager is likely to be transferred to another craft and either taken to Australia or France's Reunion Island off eastern Africa.

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.

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