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May 13, 2002
Vessel Data
Status: Enroute, Papeete, Tahiti to Auckland, New Zealand
Latitude: 29-14.2’S
Longitude: 168-00.0’W
Total Distance: 2221.3 miles
Gone: 1240.3 miles
24 Hr. Dist.: 268.0 miles
To Go: 980.7 miles
Current Speed: 10.7 kts.
Engine Setting: 75 RPM’s Port engine
 Weather:
Air Temperature: 67°F
Humidity: 80%
Wind: E 20 knots
Clouds: Partially
Sea Temperature: 71°F
Currents:
Water Depth: 4734 Meters
Sunrise: 0643
Sunset: 1734
Aboard the TSGB
Day 24
The day after Mother’s Day begins a new week of training and classes. After lasts night’s strong rain
squalls and high winds, we are now riding along a weak high pressure ridge giving us following seas
and moderating wind. Unfortunately, the sky is still too cloudy for good celestial observations.
 The deluge of fresh water from lasts nights squalls has given the ship a good fresh water rinse to remove the accumulated salt
and stack soot. Routine deck and engine department maintenance projects occupied the day working students while the deck underclass cadets began a new introductory medical
class provided by Suzanne Dolan, our campus health director. The object of the class is basic first aid and CPR.
 During the course of the cruise, each Cal Poly student will spend a four-hour watch observing on the ship’s Bridge and in the engine room.
Today, four Cal Poly students pose between the two Enterprise R5 V-16 main engines during their engine room familiarization watch.
Even though we have not physically crossed the 180th meridian, i.e. the International Date Line, we
are going to skip tomorrow as if we are entering east longitude. So at 11:59:59 and one second on Monday the 13th of May, it will become 00:00:00 on Wednesday May 15th. We will never know
what it was like to live on Tuesday May 14th.
Captain
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