Jessica Watson — the girl who sailed around the world

Fierce Girls

ABC Australia

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family

4.5 • 956 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Everyone said 16-year-old Jessica Watson was too young to sail around the world all on her own. And when she crashed her boat into a giant ship in the dead of the night, in the middle of the ocean, the trolls shouted, “we told you so!”. But they were way too quick to judge the fierce and brave Jessica. She tried again ... and then it was her turn to say, “I told you so!”. Narrated by Little Lunch actor Madison Lu.

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0:00.0	Beers.
0:02.0	Go Power.
0:04.0	This is the story of the girl who sailed around the world,
0:08.0	Jessica Watson, read by a little lunch actor Madison Lou.
0:13.0	First tip, if you're trying to prove to millions of people
0:19.0	that you can sail around the world all on your own
0:22.0	when you're 16, probably best not to crash into a humongous
0:26.4	ship while taking a nap.
0:30.3	Jessica Watson makes fun of herself now, but when it happened it was both terrifying and mortifying.
0:37.0	It was a trial run, her chance to prove to the party poopers that she could really do it.
0:44.0	That a kid in a pink boat was someone to be taken seriously.
0:50.0	Then it happened.
0:52.0	It was part raw, part screech,
0:56.0	part scrape, part crash,
1:00.0	whatever it was, it was the sound
1:02.0	Jessica had never heard before.
1:05.0	She jolted awake as a boat spun violently.
1:11.0	A quick glance up the steps from my cabin to the deck, revealed a tower of black steel.
1:17.0	It was a ship's hull.
1:20.0	A 63,000-ton-ton ship's hull.
1:26.0	63,000 tons. That's six Eiffel Towers.
1:30.0	400 single-story houses. 600 blue whales 8,500 elephants 750,000 adult red kangaroos.
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