"Pretty dull today. Passed Acapulco this morning, but we're well offshore and not seeing any land. Still hot and sunny (for a couple more days until we round the tip of Baja), but didn't see anything especially interesting. Perhaps a couple of dolphin in the distance. Even our boobie escort seems to have left us.
"Don't want to make you nervous, but they've turned off the GPS on the bridge and the cadets have been piloting by dead reckoning since we left Costa Rica. Locating our position by celestial navigation and plotting our course on charts. They do get to use the ship's chronometers for assistance with determining longitude. (Remember Harrison's clocks in the 'Longitude' book and PBS special?) And they do still have the radar on, which I think would help us avoid running into anything as large as Mexico. But the Captain doesn't seem worried, so I presume they're doing OK.
"Otherwise, I'm finishing up preparations for the last classes, writing a final exam for my energy class (the other two were already written), grading, and doing the same dull end-of-quarter chores I would have done at home. But at least I can look at my window at the sea!"
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