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Team Vestas Wind crash - new photos and video

by Volvo Ocean Race 5 Dec 2014 20:39 NZDT 5 December 2014
Team Vestas Wind aground on a reef on Cargados Carajos Shoals, Mauritius © Brian Carlin / Team Vestas Wind / Volvo Ocean Race
Team Alvimedica have won their claim for redress after they diverted course to sail to the assistance of the grounded Team Vestas Wind in Leg 2 of the Volvo Ocean Race ©Ainhoa Sanchez / Volvo Ocean Race
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Charging through the Indian Ocean at high speed and in total darkness, nothingness ahead, nothingness around. Speed is good, sailing is supreme. And then... BANG.

Team Vestas Wind aground on a reef on Cargados Carajos Shoals, Mauritius - photo © Brian Carlin / Team Vestas Wind / Volvo Ocean Race
Team Vestas Wind aground on a reef on Cargados Carajos Shoals, Mauritius - photo © Brian Carlin / Team Vestas Wind / Volvo Ocean Race

Team Vestas Wind recover equipment from Cargados Carajos Shoals, Mauritius - photo © Brian Carlin / Team Vestas Wind / Volvo Ocean Race
Team Vestas Wind recover equipment from Cargados Carajos Shoals, Mauritius - photo © Brian Carlin / Team Vestas Wind / Volvo Ocean Race

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