Which navigational risk increased when celestial sightings were obscured in 18th-century maritime navigation?

💡 Explanation

Increased error in dead reckoning arose because reliance on estimated speed and heading, rather than celestial fixes, accumulates positional inaccuracies due to propagation of errors. Therefore, location estimates diverge from the actual position, rather than being affected by instrument defects.

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