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Re: Lost at Sea with a sextant puzzle
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2019 Jun 23, 05:18 -0700
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2019 Jun 23, 05:18 -0700
Even if you had tables, charts and a chronometer along with your sextant, and you can find your position to the nearest nautical mile, what are you going to do with that information? Given that life rafts do not usually have any means of propulsion, you will drift where the ocean takes you no slower, or faster, than you would without that information.
Geoffrey Kolbe
