LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A 16-year-old girl from California attempting to sail around the world alone has gone missing in the Indian Ocean after apparently signalling that she was in trouble, media reports said on Thursday.
Abby Sunderland was last heard from at about 6 a.m. Pacific time (2:00 p.m. British time) on Thursday, when she broke off a satellite phone call with a member of her support team, ABC News reported on its website.
"We're still trying to figure out the rescue situation," her brother Zac told Los Angeles radio station KNX.
"There's two boats headed out to her position," he said. "One of them is about 40 hours out, the other is 48, so right now we're just trying to figure out if there's any way faster."
Shortly after she ended the phone call, Sunderland, who left California on her 36-foot (11-metre) sailboat Wild Eyes in January, activated two emergency beacons but has otherwise not been heard from since, ABC reported.
During a blog entry written on Wednesday, Sunderland said she had spent several days in rough weather and had to patch one of her sails. Sunderland also wrote that she was having trouble with her Internet system.
Sunderland had hoped to become the youngest sailor to circumnavigate the globe alone nonstop but had to give up her chance at that record when she was forced to pull into a port at Cape Town, South Africa, for repairs to her boat.
(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Eric Walsh)
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