MI Adventurer

Mount Pearl Intermediate School and the Marine Institute

Updates:

Voyage 1

Engineer students at the Marine Institute conducted a daylong workshop in collaboration with Mount Pearl Intermediate School’s grade eight classes. This partnership aims to teach about ocean currents and wind to complement the middle school’s Oceans curriculum, in conjunction with mentorship from university scholars studying in the maritime field.

The eighth grade students worked together to decorate the deck and write letters to include in the cargo hold. The engineer students completed the more labor intensive elements of the build in the Marine Institute shop, including the GPS and sensor pack installation as well as the keel installation.

Everyone hopes to learn more about weather systems and the way Newfoundland & Labrador’s multiple ocean currents (Labrador Current and Gulf Stream) affect the movement of MI Adventurer when launched out to sea.

Stay tuned for more updates!

  • Data from Sensor Pack

    The location reports from the main GPS will show on the map at the top of this page here (which updates hourly with new positions if available). Here below is where you can see the data reporting from the second GPS which is connected to a custom sensor package. In addition to reporting location with a secondary GPS tracker, this system is also collecting air temperature, water temperature, and orientation of the boat. Please note that the map below will only the last 7 days of data and may include invalid points and data. If you are interested in looking at the data in a different format from the whole voyage, contact us.