When bad weather prevented navigators from seeing the sun,moon or stars, they had to use a method called "dead reckoning" to find the ship's position.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

If a ship was sailing in the middle of the ocean, a navigator could make mistakes using dead reckoning and no harm would be done.

VOA: special.2011.07.06

However,when a ship was near land, dead reckoning became extremely dangerous.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

Fambul Tok director,John Caulker, believes that Sierra Leone needs a reconciliation model that relies on community dialogue and collective reckoning.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

(SAYING) But Ochoa admits that continued oil revenues, even if insufficient to cover mounting government expenditures, will allow President Chavez to put off, any day of reckoning that may loom ahead.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06