Sea Day #4 Atlantic Ocean

March 31, 2025

Well, you wouldn’t think that having repetitive 25-hour days would mess up your body rhythm, but it DOES! We are now on Greenwich mean time and between heading west and with Europe going on daylight savings time it’s a bit befuddling!  I stared at the ceiling for about 4 hours last night.

It’s definitely getting warmer, 82F air temp with 82F water temperature and we should cross the equator tomorrow.  Seas remain very calm, and we are going with the tide.  I saw some flying fish today.  At first, I thought they were little birdies playing in the water but then I thought, what would they be doing out here 500 miles offshore? Captain Frank says we’re in about 18,000 feet of water due to some trench which is over 3 miles deep.  He also said to go out tonight and say goodbye to the constellation the Southern Cross as we won’t be able to see it again after we pass the equator.  After dinner the clouds cooperated and there it was!  We could easily see it from the very bow of the ship.