Dead Reckoning
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Dead Reckoning
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#2I was expecting it to be about - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_reckoning
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#3I was expecting it to be about - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_reckoning
And I thought it would be about https://store.steampowered.com/app/815560/Dead_Reckoning_The...
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#4I was expecting it to be about - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_reckoning
So did I.
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#5I was expecting it to be about - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_reckoning
There was a short bit about dead reckoning in the story, but I’d assume the title is more of a play on “dead”.
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#6As someone who interacts too often with cat and dog lovers, my favourite part of the story (spoiler alert):
> Communicating via gestures, the natives agreed to trade for some food—a small stockpile of mollusks. They returned some time later offering three sheep, which the Englishmen eagerly accepted for future meals. The natives also offered two dogs, which the Englishmen immediately roasted and ate.
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#7sublime use of "Ear regardless"
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#8I was expecting it to be about - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_reckoning
Use of dead reckoning (or, rather, the lack of viable alternatives at the time) is the reason the ship was wrecked.
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#9Every time I read one of these stories about extraordinary survival against all odds, I wonder how many other stories there are that never made it out because everyone involved died.
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#10From the quite interesting article:
> Captain Cheap, however, was promoted to post captain, […]
If I understand the term post-captain correctly, this was not an actual rank to be promoted to. It just means that a captain's name was 'posted' on the Navy's seniority list as having been assigned command of a vessel, rather than holding the rank of captain without a command.