Howdy!

R/V Gyre left the dock in Galveston, TX, at 20:00 on 2 June 2005.

We will steam all night and morning to reach our first way point at 27  22.3464'N 94  51.8480'W about mid-day on 3 June 2005. The science team consists of 23  people. At the way point we will take at CTD, deploy the passive acoustic hydrophone arrays, and, with the visual acoustics team, begin to search for sperm whales in the western Gulf of Mexico. Weather is fine and seas are calm.

Ann