The JOIDES Resolution traveled (slowly but surely) nearly 2,000 miles from Cape Town to our first drilling site. We are now right in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, a little closer to South America than we are to Africa.
In total, I have traveled more than 8,000 miles on this adventure so far. There's still a long way to go! Want to learn more about my "Amazing Journey to the Starting Line"? Click here!
For the next several weeks, all of my travel will be by ship.
We crossed the Atlantic Mid Ocean Ridge, which is part of the longest mountain range in the world. All of the mountains, however, are at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, so it is only by plotting our location on a map that we know where the ship is in relationship to what's far below us.
