Day 66 - CRUISING THE TIMOR SEA

 Date: 3/11/2024     Day 66                       Sea Day: CRUISING THE TIMOR SEA

The Timor Sea is a relatively shallow sea in the Indian Ocean, bounded by the island of Timor to the north, Timor-Leste to the north, Indonesia to the northwest, Arafura Sea to the east, and Australia to the south.12 It covers an area of approximately 610,000 sq. km and has a maximum width of 480km.1 The Sunda Trench marks the deepest point of the Timor Sea with a depth of more than 3300 meters, separating the continents of Oceania in the southeast and Asia to the northwest and north.2 The sea is well known for generating typhoons and is situated close to the three gulfs namely the Beagle Gulf, the Van Diemen Gulf, and the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf on the north Australian coast.

Morning Update:  The seas are a bit rougher than they have been the last few days.  The ship is still riding very smooth despite the a few white caps on the sea.   We moved ship's time back another hour last night.  We are physically in time zone UTC+08:00.  However, because we had adjusted the 30 minute setback to match Darwin time (UTC+09:30, last night's time adjustment appears to match nowhere.  I am having trouble resetting my computers and Fitbit devices.  Especially Fitbit because it dose not provide for a manual setting, just time zone selections, and not all time zone's are defined.  Ship's time is now UTC+8:30 for which I cannot find a matching time zone.  

Today is a sea day before our next port Komodo Island.   So I am going to work on the video I took yesterday and get that uploaded and posted.  So please check back to my post for Darwin for those updates.

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