NavList:

Fred Hebard, you wrote:
"Our very own Frank Reed is quoted prominently in there, which I thought was cool."

Yep. That's me! I convinced them that it was important to mention Mystic Seaport Museum, too, for publicity for our navigation workshops, but the powers that be at Mystic Seaport seem quite indifferent to that ...which is really very disappointing to me.

My complimentary copy arrived back in mid-December in a securely constructed cardboard mailer with no markings except a random mailing address in West Virginia. As I took it out of the mailbox, my exact thoughts were: "Oh great... anthrax... again!"

The article itself has little to say about the celestial navigation and astronomy that helped determine the location of the wreck. But that's not surprising in "National Geographic". Their stories have always leaned into a conversational "travelogue" style. My interview with the author was much longer and more detailed. I even got him outside to watch a Spica occultation! But he admitted --and I understood-- that only a small fraction of what we discussed could make it into the article. Copy below. My account of the contributions of Robin Stuart and Lars Bergman did not make it into the article, but as I have noted previously, they were honored by the "Royal Institute of Navigation" for their work, which beats a Nat Geo article any day! :)

Frank Reed

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