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Great movie sextant flub!
From: Paul Saffo
Date: 2015 Aug 29, 17:00 -0700
From: Paul Saffo
Date: 2015 Aug 29, 17:00 -0700
Here is a link to a youtube documentary, "Hunt the Kaiser's Cruisers!" about a German navy crew trying to make their way home from the Indian Ocean at the start of WW-I. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfOYTG3am5k
At 20 mins in, there is a great scene of the First Officer taking a sun sight. They were to meet a german steamer at a rendwzvous point described by the narrator as "latitude 3 deg 21 mins, longitude 99deg 19 mins." All very nautical sounding, except... the sun is in the opposite direction of where the officer is sighting, and (even better) there is no scope on the sextant! See screen grab below.
-p
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