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Virtual Cruise II
United States Training Ship Golden Bear
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Status August 7, 2002
En-route to Los Angeles, California from Nuku Hiva, French Marquesas
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Total Distance:
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2,933.7 nm
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Projected Time:
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11 Days 9 hours 30 min at 10.7 knots
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Time Remaining:
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8 Days 17 hours
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Comments:
Tomorrow morning at 0200 we will once again advance clocks one hour, conforming to zone description +8.
We will then be only one hour behind West Coast time.
Vessel Data
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Time Zone:
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+9 (9 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time)
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Length of Day:
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24 hours
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Local Time of Position:
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1200
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Latitude:
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06°-53.0' N
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Longitude:
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131°-54.5' W
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Total Distance Gone:
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1878.4 nm
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Distance Gone Today:
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295.1 nm
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Distance to Go:
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1864.1 nm
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Current Speed:
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11.0 kts
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Course:
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025°
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Engine Setting:
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Port - 72 rpm.
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Weather Data
Observations:
Forecast:
Good afternoon everyone. That’s how we say hello in the USA, which is
where we’re headed next. Enough chit-chat, let’s get down to business. We are currently headed for a break in the clouds along the
Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), so we may get lucky, meteorologically speaking, otherwise we might see some moderate
thunderstorms and heavy downpours. We will have a slight swell from the north, seas out of the east. The wind will be from the SE at 15
knots and becoming more easterly and speeding up to 20 knots within the next 48 hours. Tropical depression 7-E passed ahead of us late this
morning, heading NW. The depression will dissipate far to the NW of us, but we may still see some residual cloud cover.
The Weather Dudes Hisakazu Nakayama and Johannes Phipps
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Air Temperature:
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89° F
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Barometer:
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1008.0 mb
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Humidity:
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68%
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Wind:
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SE 17 kts.
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Clouds:
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Cumulus / Stratocumulus
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Seas:
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E 6 ft.
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Sea Temperature:
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83° F
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Water Depth:
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4200 M
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Sunrise:
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0633
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Sunset:
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1801
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Aboard The T.S.G.B. Day: 47
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Cadet Paul LaMarre sounds ballast tanks and then compares his soundings
with the sophisticated stability software we use to calculate the stresses on the ships hull. Keeping the ship stable and trim is a constant task because of
the continual burning of fuel from the ships massive fuel tanks. At our current speed of 11 kts. we can expect to burn twenty metric tons of fuel every day. In
order to keep the ship stable and trim ballast water and fuel must be continually transferred to compensate for the loss.
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As seen above, the 3rd class are practicing techniques to be used when
advancing as a team to fight a simulated shipboard fire.
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At the end of the day there is a combined drill with the first class
leading the under class. The objective of the drill is to expose the first class to the command and control of aspects of firefighting and to familiarize the
underclass with firefighting terminology and commands.
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Melany Weaver, Amanda Daniels and Edith Lane
suited-up and waiting their turn to assault the 'fire'.
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The Monterey Bay visiting cadets and our Business Cadets were exposed
to the interior construction of the ship today in an event called tank diving. As part of the shipboard orientation class, a ballast tank was opened so
that the students could go inside the tank and see the construction of the ship.
The tank that they entered is in the forward part of the ship and is quite
large, one of over 50 tanks on the ship. The tank, 5-15-0, exposes the frames and the longitudinals that are used to give the ship shape and
strength. Additionally, inside the tank, they could see the piping system that is used to put water into and out of the tank. The tank is used
(as mentioned above) to weight the ship to keep it stable or floating upright. Also in the tank is an electronic protection system that protects the tank
from electrolysis when it is full of salt water.
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