British adventurer Sarah Outen from the Japanese Coast Guard after a tropical storm damaged her boat Wednesday during her attempt to row solo across the Pacific Ocean. Outen was several hundred miles from the Japanese coast when she hit a storm her team had been tracking. Her boat, Gulliver, rolled several times and sustained unknown damage while Outen hunkered in the cabin amid high seas and 55-knot winds. A Coast Guard aircraft responded to her emergency beacon and sent a ship that will reach her tomorrow. She intends to seek repairs to the damaged vessel on shore. The incident is a setback in Outen’s human-powered circumnavigation of the earth.
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