How do you solve Isla Culebra? Volvo Hunt!?

Answer 1

The key to answering the puzzle on the island is all about the timing and counting. If you have a stop watch, this would be a good time to use it.

What you have to do is count the number of time the lightning strikes the Earth, and then the number of seconds between that strike and the thunder that follows.

The number of strikes is the coordinate, the time it takes for the thunder tells us the position. There are ten strikes, and the can take up between 1 and 10 seconds.

The answer and its explanation are below:

The first number is the number in which the lightning strikes appear

The second number is the number of strikes (coordinate)

The third number is the seconds that the thunder takes to sound (position)

1 - 1,1
2 - W,10 (rather than counting the strike, look at the pattern, it looks like a W)
3 - N,5 (same as above)
4 - 5,3
5 - 6,7
6 - 5,4
7 - 7,6
8 - 4,8
9 - 7,2
10 - 9,9

Therefore the numbers are
1755N7649W