Which consequence resulted from inaccuracies in dead reckoning during transoceanic voyages using 18th-century navigational methods?

💡 Explanation

When dead reckoning errors accumulated across long voyages, determination of longitude became highly inaccurate due to lack of accurate clock, leading to underestimated distances and landfall points, increasing time at sea and prolonged deficiencies of vitamin C intake. Therefore, prolonged exposure to scurvy resulted, rather than time, water, or structural increases which depend on different navigation calculation failures.

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