The six-boat, nine-month-long, 39,000-mile that started in Spain two months ago and is set to end in Ireland next July, has entered its — an area off the coast of Somalia where the teams' progress will not be precisely broadcast to the world because of the .
"Boat tracks and data will be hidden from the public once they reach a certain point in the Indian Ocean," the race's organizers .
Right now, for instance, the site shows that the Groupama Sailing Team is in the lead, but gives no information about its location in that stealth zone — which covers "an area ... from the northern tip of Madagascar to the United Arab Emirates."
And the racers are heading "towards a safe haven port, where they will be loaded onto a ship for transportation through the worst affected waters and on to a point off the Sharjah coast, where they will resume racing to Abu Dhabi," .
There's more about the reasons .
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