Dutton’s Navigation and Piloting

This morning Eric Berger posted a clip from The Hunt for Red October as a meme, and that made me think about the movie.

I watched Red October this evening, for the first time since around the time it came out in 1990, and was surprised by a detail in one of the scenes. I recognized one of the books: Dutton’s Navigation and Piloting.

I have a copy of that book. I have the 14th edition, printed in 1989, and so it may be the same edition as in the movie. The spine looks the same.

I bought Dutton’s sometime in the last couple years. It came highly recommended for something I was working on. Apparently it’s quite a classic since someone thought that adding a copy in the background would help make a realistic set for a submarine.

Here’s a clip from the movie featuring Dutton’s Navigation and Plotting.

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