Which navigational risk increased when early 18th-century mariners relied solely on dead reckoning accounting for variations in prevailing winds?

💡 Explanation

Longitudinal error increased when the ships couldn't verify position with celestial or chronometer data; rather than the correct position being computed independently, cumulative errors arose, because error variance follows position from time as estimated mechanically; therefore, there was longitudinal error.

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