But you will never know. And that is the point.

On that day, the Doldrum Star experienced : no wind, no wave, no engine vibration (the auxiliary had failed), no bird, no cloud, no radio contact, and—for 14 hours—no time-keeping (the ship’s chronometer, a mechanical Smiths 6-16, also stopped, later found to have a frozen mainspring).

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But you will never know. And that is the point.

On that day, the Doldrum Star experienced : no wind, no wave, no engine vibration (the auxiliary had failed), no bird, no cloud, no radio contact, and—for 14 hours—no time-keeping (the ship’s chronometer, a mechanical Smiths 6-16, also stopped, later found to have a frozen mainspring).