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> Though in this day and age emergency navigation seems to mean drifting
> in life raft without any control and praying that coast guard got your
> mayday or EPIRB signal and will pick you up before water runs out.
> Navigation without mobility is quite useless.
>
> Martin

For a merchant ship I would agree with this Martin as liferafts are
completely uncontrolable, and most lifeboats have only 24 hours of
fuel and oars (sails are extremely rare on L/B's these days) and
therefore you don't "go anywhere" but rather flip on the EPRIB and
SART and await the proverbial cavalry.  However, another "emergency"
navigation system that would require actual navigation is in a
sailboat where a wave or other failure wiped out all of the
electronics (except a watch which should survive) mid voyage and you
are "stuck" with celestial navigation.  Instead of packing all sorts
of volumes of sight reduction tables in your limited space, you might
want to have the various tools described in this thread.

My 2 cents,

Jeremy
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