Hey All
I just want to leave everyone with a quick update on the status of the gliders
Silbo is continuing to find his way through the desert as he fights the strong head current that has been quite persistant in flowing to the east rather than in the direction we had hoped for towards the Caribbean. As he stands now, there is roughly 1400 km between his last surfacing and Barbados, and with batteries that are still showing enough juice to last us through the end of the year, it merely comes down to finding that ideal path to the west.
Challenger on the other hand is still flying well, with the way point on Ascension, she is continuing to beat her own rough path to the northwest using the northern component of the currents that we were dealt.
As the currents have become a little less favorabel we saw the glider velocities drop down a bit. However they seem to be leveling off at the moment so we shouldn’t loose too much of our speed. As of now, we are still maintaining a nice >25 km/ day which will always be useful as we race the battery life on our way across the Southern Atlantic Basin.
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