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Music.

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Abby: This shows my route; pulled into Cabo San Lucas for repairs.

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Then hit the Equator, then down south

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to Cape Horn, across the ocean and stopped

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in Cape Town for more repairs. It was an unplanned stop but…

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Then, that’s where I rolled. I

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was around 2000 miles away from any major search and rescue place, which was…

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I could not have planned to be in a more remote place and have

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something bad happen. It was pretty bad. I checked out

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deck and saw that my mast was completely gone, my boom was

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snapped in half, my engine was dead. There really wasn’t anything left

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for me to jury rig with. And then I went to try to find my

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satellite phones and both of them were wet. I was pretty much

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just stranded out in the middle of the ocean and that’s kind of when I realized that

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I needed to set off the EPIRBs. Daniel Ch’en: a situation like one that Abby

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had, without the satellite rescue system,

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her chances of survival were very very low.

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Kathy Niles: So, that information that’s coming directly from the distress beacon to the satellites is

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the one key link that we have to actually find out where

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something is happening and hopefully, again, if the beacon is registered,

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tell us who that beacon belongs to.

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Abby: when I rolled, I had water pouring into my boat. I was

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not exactly sure if anybody could get to me where I was.

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I was completely shocked, I was there expecting to wait weeks and the next morning a plane flew over and

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I was being told that a day later a boat was going to be there. So, I mean, it’s just an example

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of how great the whole system is. David Affens: the reality is that there

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have been over 27,000 people saved by this

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system, many of which were done by the GOES satellites. Abby: having the beacon

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on board was a real peace of mind. Knowing that I had that

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as a last resort and knowing that if all my communication

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did go down and I was in a serious situation, that I could set that off

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and somebody would hear. Overall, it was the best

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experience of my life. I was lucky to have the opportunity and have the people

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there to help me out with it. Beeping sound.