Jessica Watson
Teen sailor Jessica Watson says she has survived her toughest test to date with her yacht being slammed on its side four times by rogue waves and cyclonic winds in the Atlantic ocean.
Watson's online blog says after experiencing her first knockdown - which is when the mast goes below horizontal and into the sea - she then suffered three more during the eight-hour storm.
She was battered with wind gusts of up to 70 knots and a swell up to 10 metres.
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What a remarkable young girl, at first I thgought
her parents were crazy to let such a young girl
go on her own in a small yacht, being on a troopship
amid a storm was terrifying enough,
I could only imagine being on a yacht would be like
It was wonderful to see her welcome home, seth.