Friday, June 8, 2012

UK solo-rower Sarah Outen 'safe and well', awaits rescue from Japan coastguard after being hit by storm - @itvnews

6:12am, Fri 8 Jun 2012 Last updated Fri 8 Jun 2012

Sarah Outen is one of two British sailors waiting to be rescued after been forced to abandon their separate attempts to row across the Pacific Ocean after being hit by a tropical storm.

Writing her latest blog, her team said:

Sarah is still safe and well and strapped inside her cabin on Gulliver and has been communicating regularly with the Team throughout the day (and her night).

Fellow British Rower Charlie Martell is also awaiting rescue in his boat Blossom. Charlie is approximately 280 miles NE of Sarah’s current position.

At regular intervals today a surveillance plane from the Japanese Coastguard has been monitoring both Sarah and Charlie."

"You will have seen from Sarah’s tweet that some water has entered her cabin but this is minimal. Sarah is bearing up well and demonstrating the strength and resolve that has brought her the huge distance on the journey so far. The request for her first meal back on land in Japan is ’PANCAKES PLS. COLD OJ. GRAPES’."