Frigate nearing sailboat with sick baby in Pacific Ocean

A U.S. Navy frigate was expected to reach an American family and their seriously ill infant on a faltering sailboat in the Pacific Ocean shortly after dark on Saturday, a Coast Guard official said. The frigate Vandegrift, carrying a helicopter and a crew of 200, left San Diego on Friday, bound for the sailboat of Eric and Charlotte Kaufman. The Kaufmans sent out a distress call by satellite from their boat, named Rebel Heart, on Thursday about 1,000 miles off Mexico's Pacific coast, said Navy and Coast Guard officials. The Kaufmans, along with their daughters Cora, 3, and 1-year-old Lyra, sailed from Mexico on March 19 toward islands in the South Pacific and eventually New Zealand, according to therebelheart.com, where they have been writing about their sometimes stormy voyage.



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