We are currently in route to Station 9, our last station moving south before heading west towards Bermuda. We will be in shallow water close to the coast of Mauritania, Africa and hopefully will be able to see some land! After station 9 it’s homeward bound (though this will take five weeks!) moving west towards the US. We will stop in Bermuda just before thanksgiving before heading north towards Woods Hole, MA. Once on a western track we should have pretty calm seas; we will be traveling mainly in the horse latitudes, a region of subtropical high pressure. This region gets its name because there is little wind and early sailors crossing the sea were often stuck for months and forced to eat their horses to survive.