“You can’t change the wind, you can however adjust your sails.”

November 11, 2009 5:40 pm EST

November 11th did not show many boats outside the shipping lanes.

November 11, 2009 11:56pm EST

November 12, 2009 1:32pm EST

November 12th also showed few boats outside of the shipping lanes. Thursday did show an increase in the number of boats traveling.

November 12, 2009 12:07pm EST

November 15, 2009 5:30pm EST

Yesterday once again showed the same basic trend in number of ships traveling and ships outside the shipping lanes.

November 16, 2009 3:58pm EST

Today showed an increase in ship traffic outside the shipping lanes. The ships do not appear to be too far away from the Spanish coast but they are outside of 10º West. Their distance does not appear to be a potential problem when picking up RU27.

Worst Case Scenario

Our group has been inputting screenshots into Google Earth of the worst case scenarios in order to help determine what possible issues could arise when trying to pick up Scarlet.

We have also added additional .kmz files that can be downloaded from the RUCOOL website that show recent shipping traffic and the worst case scenario. These can be under the vessel tracking group.

-Amelia, Shannon, Leo