At noon today we are at Latitude 20 degrees 38 minutes North and Longitude 67 degrees 24 minutes West. The ship is still 305 miles from St. Barthelemy, Guadeloupe. We are traveling at 17 knots and appear to be well ahead of the scheduled arrival. The Captain just reported that we should be tied up in the harbor in the morning by 9:00am. The weather today is clear and sunny with a 20 knot wind and a sea swell of 9 feet. Temperature currently is 78 degrees.
Later this afternoon we will travel over the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, the Puerto Rico Trench. This area of the Atlantic is 28, 230 feet deep or 5 ¼ miles.
