“All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging—sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only you, the Creator, and His mercy.”

— Abby Sunderland

Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 17

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