On Thursday morning, the U.S. Coast Guard received a distress call about the girl, who was on the Rebel Heart with her parents and a sibling about 900 miles off Mexico.
Members of an Air National Guard unit operating out of Moffett Federal Airfield in the Bay Area were dispatched.
Four members of the 129th Rescue Wing parachuted into the ocean, inflated a motorized boat and reached the 36-foot sailboat, said 2nd Lt. Roderick B. Bersamina.
The child was in stable condition; the rescuers will stay with her until they reach a doctor, Bersamina said Saturday.
The nature of the girl's illness is not yet ascertained.
After meeting with the frigate, "the pararescuemen and the family will be loaded on a helicopter, and they'll fly to the most appropriate medical facility," Bersamina said.
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