Hey guys,
Just a quick update on Challenger’s progress.
Yesterday afternoon we moved the way point to the South East so that we could begin making progress towards the Canaries.
Another deciding factor behind the movement of the way point was to avoid becoming caught in the bottom edge of the large warm core eddy to the North East of our position. This would cause us to slow even more and possibly even drag us to the North. Now, although we may be fighting the outermost edge of the cold eddy, the currents are weaker than the ones we would have encountered, and there is the possibility of a strong south flowing jet that will help us on our way.
Lauren Cooney, Antonio Ramos & Nilsen Strandskov