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North Atl Animation
The predominate wind and sea conditions along the northern South American coast are 060°T/20KTS height 9FT/2.5M becoming 090°T/5-10TS height 3FT/1M in next 5 days.
It would seem the vessel is not handling the conditions that well, and the North Brazilian current is very strong at this time of the year, which wont be helping. An approximate position for the vessel at 1200z 16 March 2010 is 4°45N 49°00W. The distance from Grand Isle to Recife is 3976NM.
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