This morning, Geronimo was making between 12 and 13 knots off Casablanca after a second day in which she travelled 392 nautical miles (averaging 16.35 knots).
Day two was therefore rather laboured, with continual changes of speed and heading in response to wind shifts and short-term forecasts. The aim now is to avoid being caught between the two high pressure areas and to make it at all costs to the other side of this huge spread of high pressure, which will stretch from the Azores as far north as Sweden until Saturday.
This extraordinarily deep area of sea is where the inquisitive giant squid came a bit too close for comfort to the trimaran last year. The specialists at Ifremer now believe that it was probably the vibrations of Geronimo’s rudder blade that caused this huge animal to behave in such an unusual way. The Cap Gemini and Schneider Electric crew are just hoping that these beasts, which appear when you least expect them, haven’t acquired a taste for teflon paint!
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