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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7641189" data-attributes="member: 92282">A 16-year-old US girl who ran into problems  trying to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world has  been rescued in the Indian Ocean.            Abby Sunderland was picked up by a French fishing vessel some  2,000 nautical miles off the Australian coast, maritime authorities  said.            Her yacht, which has a broken mast, was spotted by an aerial  search team in the southern Indian Ocean, midway between Australia and  Africa, on Friday.            Rescuers say she is in good health.             The teenager had been stranded in mountainous seas since  Thursday.             Laurence Sunderland, her father, said the family was "ecstatic  that Abigail is in safe hands".            "She was in good spirits... She talked to her mother," he told  reporters outside his home in California, the Associated Press reports.BBC</blockquote>

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