Hey All
Once again Challenger is making great time on her approach towards the recovery location.
Unfortunately, she may even be coming in too fast; so much so that Antonio and I have devised another sampling scheme to attempt over the next 10 or so days until our recovery team will be in place. The plan we came up with is actually a relic from Silbo’s second mission, flying from the Azores to the Canaries back in the spring of 2012.
The plan we have come up with is to take Challenger and run a sampling mission through the eddy present within the lea of the island. As seen in the first image of this post, we will fly a “wind mill pattern” within the 35 nm recovery range over the course of the next week that will land us within 20 nm of the port we are to be recovered from by the first of November. From there, we will make slow progress towards the port by Nov 4th when we plan to finally get 29 out of the water, fix her up, and send her way ward back towards Brazil
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