
Dead Reckoning Fourteen U.S. destroyers barreled down the California coast in a dense fog—until a wrong turn led to the largest peacetime disaster in…
Dead Reckoning
As a naval “ship-driver” or Officer of the Deck I thoroughly enjoyed this story and the writing style of Robert Kolker. This fabulous depiction of life at sea in Kolker’s non-fiction piece reprinted in The Atavist Magazine recreated the smells and sounds from thirty years ago bringing back for me, and I’m certain for others, that rich naval experience. Thank you so much. – Charlie Whooph.
