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dead reckoning
1. His name was legendary to some, as previously his dead reckoning had saved his ship and crew from running aground when the ships’ electrical system failed during a storm
2. "We have radios to home in on beacons down the coast AND the ability to log our distance by dead reckoning
3. I had never heard of dead reckoning before, but it sounded dangerous
4. Dead reckoning tended to be fairly accurate; but how could we be sure?
5. Dead reckoning: navigator"s estimate of ship"s position from the course steered and distance traveled
6. Moreover, to renew our air supply, the submersible rose to the surface of the waves only at night, and relying solely on compass and log, it steered by dead reckoning
7. Then they stood together on the front porch and figured out where the second hole would be more or less by dead reckoning, and a lot of pointing and gesturing and visual explanation
8. It was sailing by dead reckoning to them, and they saw not clearly how to make their port so; therefore I suppose they still take life bravely, after their fashion, face to face, giving it tooth and nail, not having skill to split its massive columns with any fine entering wedge, and rout it in detail;—thinking to deal with it roughly, as one should handle a thistle
9. Does he not say he will not strike his spars to any gale? Has he not dashed his heavenly quadrant? and in these same perilous seas, gropes he not his way by mere dead reckoning of the error-abounding log? and in this very Typhoon, did he not swear that he would have no lightning-rods? But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship's company down to doom with him?—Yes, it would make him the wilful murderer of thirty men and more, if this ship come to any deadly harm; and come to deadly harm, my soul swears this ship will, if Ahab have his way