Friday 12 June 2009


Sailing on its new route the MV Pacific Celebes has just rounded the Cape of Good Hope for the first time. She should have passed with in sight of Cape Town and Table Mountain yesterday.

Data from the Indian Ocean show in water pCO2 levels about 20 mico-atmospheres lower than expected from the predictions of the Taro Takahashi’s global atlas of surface pCO2 values (Takahashi et al., Deep Sea Research II; doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.12.009).

Position of MV Pacific Celebes Updated at 06:50UTC On 12 Jun 2009 (Day 163).