Hey All,

For two years now, Silbo has sailed the North Atlantic providing us with valuable, never before seen data while pushing the limits of what aquatic rotobics can achieve.   After being left to the will of the surface currents just over a month ago, he has continued to drift to the west now just 800 km from the northern shore of French Guiana and 950 from Barbados.

To the south, Challenger is continuing to fly towards St Helena, forcing her way through the eastward current.

In the myocean dataset, there is a strong surface current flowing to the North East in the <300m portion of the water column with the lower portion deviating a bit with less intensity.  However with this map the entire region is flowing away from St Helena with sparse option on an ideal path to get to our destination

The Hycom doesn’t look too promising either, as it has the currents flowing consistently due north with little variation throughout the water column.  These currents could only be a little more useful than myocean as the angle we are flying into would be less of a fight.

Finally, the glider team has been working together a budget over the past week continuing to weigh our options for a St Helena recovery.

 

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