Ascension Northwards - Day Twenty One 11 57.990N 056 50.971W
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Mike and Liz Downing
Sun 4 May 2014 20:45
Saw our second ship last night. Picked it up on AIS in the early hours. It was heading in the opposite direction and it had a CPA of less than 2 miles, so changed course a little to open it up to about 3 miles. Felt more comfortable with that, nevertheless I still called it up to check they had seen us on AIS and they had. So that was good and they confirmed they would keep their current course and speed. We had a brief chat, as you do sometimes if their English is good, and they were on their way to China via South Africa. They passed by just over 3 miles away, but being over a 1,000ft long (one of the very big ones), it seemed much closer in the dark. So 2 ships seen now in 21 days.
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