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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Doug MacPherson
Date: 2019 Jun 22, 18:55 -0700
I was recently subjected to the "Lost at Sea" Team Building exercise....again. I've done this one a number of times. If you are unfamiliar with it, you can find it here:
https://www.airman.af.mil/Portals/17/002%20All%20Products/003%20PACEsetters/Teambuilder_LOST_AT_SEA.pdf?ver=2016-11-02-111101-433
or Google it.
But it prompted this question:
If someone was lost at sea in a life raft and had a sextant with them, but no tables, no nautical almanac, just the sextant pencils and scratch paper, would the sextant be of any use. What could that person do with it?
Assume that our intrepid survivor is a seaoned navigator with years of exerience doing celestial navigation. The top priority is being found, but he or she would also like to do some navigation to "quench" his or her thirst.
Doug
38° 34' N, 121 121° 29' W
