Matthew's Journal

The Ronald Brown is alive and moving. The Tech. Rep. is off the boat and we are headed away from the Panama City waterfront. We're going to steam directly towards the WHOI buoy at the fastest speed we can talk the captain into running. We're looking to make 12 knots or better. Once we see what our performance is like - fuel efficiency, the effect of winds and currents, and whatnot - we'll be able to figure out or maximum speed and compute ETAs for our various objectives and we'll be able to figure out how much science we can conduct with the time we have.