Blind Couple Embarks On Attempt To Sail Around The World

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I just do a search on intenet and found no news about this blind couple who left to take a trip around the world aboard a sailboat. Does anyone know tell me anything about it?

Fernando Costa

SAN FRANCISCO  (10-13-2004) Scott Duncan and Pamela Habek have embarked on an attempt to sail alone around the world, a journey made even more treacherous by the fact that both are legally blind.

Duncan, 38, and Habek, 42, set out Monday in a 32-foot cutter for what they hope is a two-year voyage that takes them down the coast to Panama, across the Pacific and Indian oceans, around the tip of South Africa, through the Panama Canal and back home.

"We can't drive a car at 60 mph, but we can drive a boat at

six knots," Duncan said. 

With the help of modern technology that includes a

talking Global Positioning System and a 10-power video magnifier they can use for reading charts, the couple is confident they have what they need to avoid sailing into harm's way even without perfect vision. Duncan has been a recreational sailor for... LINK