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British girl sails halfway across the Atlantic Ocean
Cambridge student Zara Lachlan, 21, rowed a boat halfway across the Atlantic Ocean - she wants to become the youngest woman to sail from Europe to South America. The BBC reports this.
Zara has already sailed 3,300 of the 6,400 kilometers - the final point of her journey should be French Guiana. Along the way, she was injured, her oar broke, one day the boat capsized due to bad weather, and her communications equipment broke down. She encountered killer whales and sharks, and almost collided with a sea vessel.
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“I had a small cut that was bleeding a lot. I'm fine, but when I was soaking my leg in the water for a couple of minutes, a shark appeared - which was pretty cool. She spent a significant amount of time [near the boat]—about an hour. It wasn’t a great white shark, it was brown, so you can call it a “great brown shark”!” — Zara told about one of the incidents on the way.
On the same day, but when it was already dark, another incident happened to her: a large ship was heading in her direction, whose radio was turned off, and Zara could not contact the crew. Thanks to the automatic identification system, she was able to see the ship itself and the direction in which it was moving.
According to Zara, when she saw the direction of the ship, she realized that she was standing right in its path. Fortunately, the ship passed within 160 meters and did not hit her, but the distance was still dangerously close.
“It's just funny. I'm very angry with them because I couldn't do anything about it. I’m just grateful that everything is fine with me,” Zara said.
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Zara Lachlan, 21, is a student at Lowborough University who hopes to join the army and become a technical officer next year.
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