Grands Records - Geronimo Heads Due East
12 March 14:30

An intermediate position given at 11:16 GMT today, Friday 12 March 2004, shows that Geronimo has been heading due east for the last few hours. The onboard GPS shows a heading of 90° precisely.

The Cap Gemini and Schneider Electric trimaran's position at this time was 43°52S, 05°11W, having covered 280.8 nautical miles in 12 hours at an average speed of 23.40 knots.

Olivier de Kersauson and his crew are therefore applying to the letter the decision we reported earlier to avoid going too far south due to the risk of ice near the Antarctic convergence zone, where icebergs have been observed in the Atlantic between 45° and 48°S.
Geronimo will certainly head south of the 50th parallel soon, after she passes the longitude of the Cape of Good Hope, which marks the entrance to the Indian Ocean, at which point the boundary of the Antarctic convergence zone moves much further south.

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