As we head into the weekend Challenger looks like she is encountering the cold core eddy sitting to the northwest. Over the past three surfacings, the speed of the currents have steadily increased from 17 to 18 to 22 and rotating to the south west simulating the glider entering the south east sector of a cold core eddy.
To try and combat this westward flow, the glider was just issued a new way point to the East North-East at -33˚ S 14˚ E to pursue over the next few surfacings
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