After a very rough ride out, the team managed to deploy Challenger last friday along the shelf break of the Southern Brazil Bight
Unfortunately, after the deployment the glider ran into a number of issues. First of which being a software bug that we failed to catch and apply the fix to which prevented the glider’s iridium phone from calling back to the lab at Rutgers. The second being that on a dive to 1,000m, the glider suffered a minor leak which we believe was caused by the pressure at depth.
So now this hour of urgency, we have shifted the way point back towards land as 29 fights the Brazil Current and shipping traffic in preparation for recovery. The latest plan is for our friends in Brazil to get back on a boat and sail out wednesday or thursday depending on weather to pull her back out of the water. We will update with the latest details as they come in
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