
But then as soon as we were north of the meander crest, we had to apply the brakes. If we stayed in the fast swirl velocity, we would have been swept by the small eddy near 41 N, 64 W. If we missed the free ride from the small eddy, we'd have to fight against a cold headwind to get to the north. So we turned the glider perpendicular to the swirl velocity and started flying back out. We kept changing the waypoint to stay perpendicular to the swirl velocity, just as if you were swiming perpendicular to the rip current. This time around we were close enough to the edge to get out of the warm ring just in time to end up on the south side of that small eddy centered near 41 N, 64 W. We found the cold water that is being swirled around, and turned to the west to start following it around the new eddy. We'll conitune to swirl around this eddy till we get around to the northeast side, probably sometime saturday. Then we'll exit this eddy, jump back into the cold water and follow it to the northeast up to the next eddy up we saw up around 42N, 63W. We'll keep flying eddy to eddy till we make the shelf break. We can worry about most of that over the weekend. Cause tonight, we rest. RU15 is in the small eddy, riding some slow but favorable currents. We'll all get some sleep and check it out in the morning. Our robot is fine - for now.
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