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Jessica Watson

Jessica Watson OAM is an Australian sailor who was awarded the order of Australia Medal after attempting a solo circumnavigation at the age of 16 although her voyage did not meet the distance criterion of 21,600 nautical miles for a circumnavigation Watson was nevertheless named the 2011 Young Australian of the year and awarded the medal of the order Australia in 2012 for service to sailing and to youth through the achievement of sailing solo and unassisted around the world and as a role model for young Australian she currently resides in Melbourne at the arrival in Sydney she was met by thousands of spectator including then Australian prime minister kevin rudd he said jess welcome back to dry land welcome back home to Australia you know something you may feel a little wobbly on your feet just now but in yhe eyes of all Australian you now stand tall as our newest Australian hero. the crowd then sang a special rendition of Australia’s national anthem advance austrilia fair as a salute to Watson.since completing her circumnavigation Watson has been recognised with a number of awards these include the spirit of sports awards from the sports australia hall of fame and young performer of the year for 2010 an award voted by the Austrilian public and presented at the annual sports performer awards in Melbourne at the age of 16vJessica Watson has just made the new world record of youngest person to ever sail solo around the world. on October 18th 2009 Jessica st off from Sydney Harbour to see if she could aail solo around the world and 7 months later she returned home to Sydney Harbour. Youngest individual to sail non stop and unassisted around the world. Winner of the 2011 young Australian of the year award. she has two sisters Hannah as well as Emily Watson and also a brother tom Watson. Resident of Buderim Queensland Australia.

In 2011 she slippered the youngest crew to date to competevin the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race Jessica was born in Australia and grew up sailing but she never swa herself as someone who would sail around the world. Critics doubted her ability to complete the trip but she proved them wrong and made international headlines. the prime minister of Australia kevun rudd even deemed her an Australian hero upon her return I m just an ordinary girl who believed in her dream. Jessica Said in a speech.you don’t have to be someone special or anything special to achieve something amazing you just have to have a dream believe in it and work hard Jessica was only 16 years old when she started he voyage around the world on October 18, 2009.she was born in gold coast Queensland Australia on may 18 1993 her parents are originally from new Zealand and the sailor has dual citizenship in both countries she is the second of four children with an older sister Emily and two younger siblings her brother tom and her sister Hannah Jessica began sailing at 8 years old in fact her family actually lived on a 16 meter cabin cruiser for five years when she was young according to the Australian museum.when Jessica was 11 her mother read her lionheart by jesse martin while aboard their family boat.the book detailed jesse Martin’s experience on his own solo sailing journey across the world. this moment in her life inspired Jessica to work to make the voyage herself before her 17th birthday Jessica journey ends with her biggest test yet as multiple major storms merged into one the giant waves flip her boat upside down and she gets stuck 15 ft. underwater for an extended period of time it’s a terrifying scene and it turns out the movie version isn’t even the full story. there were seven knock downs waston reveal not all of them were quite that bad . a lot of the time it’s just boat being knocked over but the 15ft . underwater is real because my emergency become did self activate as the boat sank that happened. but the time i was upside down for it certainly felt like a long time. I haven’t really got a concept of how long it was in reality but we are talking seconds compared to what we see in the movie which streches on forever in minutes and minutes and minutes. that’s a little bit of an exaggeration there but it was real to experience of it feeling like forever.