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[international] Brave Girl or waste of emergency resourses?

  • 12-06-2010 2:12am
    #1
    Run_to_da_hills
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    I have been following this story about a 16yo girl trying to circumnavigate the globe solo in a Yacht. Apparently her brother did it last year and she is trying to get one up.

    All seems good, yesterday the Australian Government chartered an A330 Aircraft for 10 hours along with expert tracking crew to try and locate her after her signal dissapeared and located her.

    A French fishing vessel is now on the way to pick her up.

    Apparently she was warned by experienced sailors not to travel near the Indian ocean this time of year.

    http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-abby-sunderland-20100612,0,4757725.story


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  • #2
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Foolish girl, stupid parents. Where was the back-up boat? Where was the planning?


  • #3
    Run_to_da_hills
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    Victor wrote: »
    Foolish girl, stupid parents. Where was the back-up boat? Where was the planning?

    Agree totally.


  • #4
    heffomike54
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 433 ✭✭heffomike54


    I really think this stuff is getting beyond a joke. I mean when I was that age my parents were having kittens at the thought of me getting public transport,let alone trying to sail around the world. These young people should not be allowed to attempt these types of challenges until they turn 18 & maybe pass a test that examines the necessary skills for this challenge.

    They are putting their own live at risk & anyone else who is sent to rescue them, not to mention the cost.:(


  • #5
    Shield
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    In the same way the fire brigade charge for their services, I believe that this girl's parents were warned of, and knew the risks. For that reason they should contribute a portion of, or the whole cost of getting this girl out of trouble.

    Obviously if she has some sort of insurance policy for this excursion, one would expect any emergency service to lodge a claim to recover the cost for services provided, but from reading the article, no such insurance policy exists.

    I notice people murmuring that the parents should be charged with child endangerment for allowing her to take on the challenge in the first place.

    That would be an interesting case.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
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    She made it that far by herself so you have to assume that she is an experienced sailor. Fair play to her. I doubt her parents wouldn't have let her undertake the journey if they did not believe in her.

    Also, single crewed yachts and full crewed yachts get into trouble all the time. You hear about them during round the world races, so how is this different?


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  • #7
    Run_to_da_hills
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    foreign wrote: »
    She made it that far by herself so you have to assume that she is an experienced sailor. Fair play to her. I doubt her parents wouldn't have let her undertake the journey if they did not believe in her.

    Also, single crewed yachts and full crewed yachts get into trouble all the time. You hear about them during round the world races, so how is this different?
    Timing.

    An experienced sailor would not have attempted to cross the Indian Ocean in a small craft solo during monsoon season.


  • #8
    Delancey
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    The various countries that lay ' claim ' to Antartica have banded together or so I hear to insist that people trekking to the South Pole etc now must have adequate insurance to cover rescue costs.
    One rescue a few years ago was estimated to have cost the New Zealand Navy several million dollars !

    Money aside , there is the greater moral question of rescuers risking their lives in dangerous conditions rescuing people who bite off more than they can chew .


  • #9
    Run_to_da_hills
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    Australian taxpayers are expected to cover some of the cost of rescuing the American teenager, which is believed to have already cost more than £116,000.

    Any royalties made from exclusive newspaper interviews, books etc should be used to pay back those that have contributed towards the rescue.

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article7148816.ece


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