Hey All
The tests continue for Ru29 as we formulate our plans to make her mission a success. This evening, we moved the way point to the north west to see how the heading error and fin movement are affected by our compass issues given a heading of 300˚.
A second test we are continuing is that of diving deep. Checking out the new kml created by Chip which displays the temperature at the bottom of our inflections and shows the temp profile when selected, we can see that the thermocline is at roughly 100m depth. The past week or so we have been making our top inflections at this depth to get a measure of how much energy this would draw rather than going all the way to the surface. So far we have seen nearly no change in energy draw and thus we are lowering the inflection depth to 125m that way we can completely avoid the thermocline and available sunlight, thus depleting any biological growth of its necessary resources.
To the North, Silbo just surfaced a few minutes ago and with some quick work by Ben, we were able to get a new way point in. The new way point is to the east of the previous one, to make a stab at flying more south than west as we have been over the past few days.
This will prevent us from flying into the two miniature eddies directly to our west and dive to the south to try for the arrows that will carry us towards the strong southerly jet in the bottom left corner of the screen.
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