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As opposed to drifting, a piece of fishing gear is considered set when it is anchored or attached to the bottom or shore so that it is not free to move about with water or wind currents. By contrast, a drift line or net has no such attachment to the bottom or shore and is therefore free to drift or
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announced their joint intent to retire the U.S. survey foot, with effect from the end of 2022. The fathom in U.S. Customary units is thereafter defined based on the International 1959 foot, giving the length of the fathom as exactly 1.8288 metres in the United States as well.
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The scale of a paper or raster chart is shown near the title, as are the units used for soundings (these are normally metres or fathoms, though occasionally they may be in feet). Make sure you take notice of this or you'll have some
665:, a notable focal bank of the South China Sea, with depths in whole fathoms only. The Hydrographic Office highlights hazardous depth shallows (shoals) with dashed lines. Click for broader map and to enable varied magnification. 935:. Miners also use it as a unit of area equal to 6 feet square (3.34 m) in the plane of a vein. In Britain, it can mean the quantity of wood in a pile of any length measuring 6 feet (1.8 m) square in cross section. In 1755: 210:(SI) unit, nor an internationally accepted non-SI unit. Historically it was the maritime measure of depth in the English-speaking world but, apart from within the US, charts now use metres. 1528: 1349: 1094: 631: 544: 1058: 817:
was a drag, towed under water at any depth up to about 40 fathoms (240 ft; 73 m), which upon striking bottom, was upset and rose to the surface.
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By Captain Karl B. Jeffers. Publication 20-2, Coast and Geodetic Survey, U. S. Department Of Commerce. Posted by the Hydrographic Society of America.
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fathoms (75 ft; 22.9 m). In 1949, the British navy redefined the shackle to be 15 fathoms (90 ft; 27 m).
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word "fadum", which has the same meaning and also means "yarn (originally stretching between the outstretched fingertips)".
1603: 1451: 1745: 1004: 999: 540: 199: 1491: 505: 1100: 732:, a usually sinuous line on a nautical chart, joins all points having the same depth of water, thereby indicating the 813:— a piece of cloth tied on a ship's log line some fathoms from the outboard end — marked the limit of drift line. A 697:. The area offshore beyond the 100 fathom line, too deep to be fathomed by a hand sounding line, was referred to as 916: 671: 791:
about 70 fathoms (420 ft; 130 m) long, and very deep in the middle, was used to take fish from a larger
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Some extensive flat areas of the sea bottom with constant depth are known by their fathom number, like the
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SandyBay.net - Marine Directory (MarineWaypoints.com) and Reference Directory (StarDots.com).
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for measuring mechanically the depth of water beneath a ship, one version of which is the
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The complete yachtmaster: sailing, seamanship and navigation for the modern yacht skipper
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The new way and the old; how the sounding machine has superseded the deep sea lead.
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Until early in the 20th century, it was the unit used to measure the depth of
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containing fathom points, some marked and others in between, called
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Most modern nautical charts indicate depth in metres. However, the
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defined the length of the international yard to be exactly 0.9144
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1.828804 m (Obsolete measurement of the fathom based on the
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By James Mathews. Navy & Marine Living History Association.
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This article is about the unit of length. For other uses, see
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systems equal to 6 feet (1.8288 m), used especially for
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Hungarian web page that refers to the length of a "bécsi öl"
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was the corresponding unit of comparable length, as was the
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will always explicitly indicate the units of depth used.
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exactly (Official international definition of the fathom)
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Hirsch Jr, E.D.; Kett, Joseph F.; Trefi, James (2002).
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Digital Humanities: Diophant Ancient Measures Converter
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To measure the depth of shallow waters, boatmen used a
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NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B: Conversion Factors
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Customary units of measurement in the United States
1307:"U.S. Survey Foot: Revised Unit Conversion Factors" 809:was about 150 fathoms (900 ft; 270 m). A 720:(trademark). The record made by such a device is a 278: 263: 161: 142: 120: 110: 93: 88: 39: 1637: 1099:. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press. Archived from 377:) roughly equivalent to the old Greek fathom (6 1223:, Oxford University Press, pp. 1532–1533, 1720:An explanation of the fathom marks used at sea 1042: 1040: 545:National Institute of Standards and Technology 1530:Drift and set line fishing gear in California 1217:Schilbach, E.; et al. (1991), "Orgyia", 8: 1695:A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units 763:were measured in fathoms. The rope called a 712:This technique has been superseded by sonic 1476:May 2008. In chapter 7, Glossary, page 252. 1287:. National Geodetic Survey. 31 October 2019 759:The components of a commercial fisherman's 414:) that was one-eighth longer (6 feet and a 622: 560:defined a fathom to be a thousandth of an 45: 36: 1608:. 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I'd Rather Be Sailing. 615: 259: 1378:. Bloomsbury USA. p. 114. 590:meant one-quarter of a fathom. 500:1 metre is about 0.5468 fathoms 1508:Glossary of Marine Navigation. 1246:Admiralty Manual of Seamanship 1: 1093:(1898). Thomas Toller (ed.). 1005:United States customary units 1000:International System of Units 541:U.S. National Geodetic Survey 419: 382: 1697:. Oxford: University Press. 1187:Loizos, Demetris I. (2010), 1153:Definition and etymology of 931:(mineral extraction) in the 506:international yard and pound 204:measuring the depth of water 206:. The fathom is neither an 1772: 406: 396: 369: 341: 29: 1581:Oxford English Dictionary 1096:An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary 1078:Oxford English Dictionary 674:uses feet and fathoms. A 436:One fathom is equal to: 404:) or "geometric orguia" ( 227:(Admiralty) nautical mile 138: 44: 856:) is occasionally used: 672:U.S. Hydrographic Office 1552:move with any currents. 1465:Field Procedures Manual 1309:. 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Index

Fathoms
Fathom (disambiguation)

Regensburg
foot
ell
Unit system
imperial
US
length
ft
SI unit equivalent
m
unit
length
imperial
U.S. customary
measuring the depth of water
international standard
yards
feet
outstretched arms
(Admiralty) nautical mile
yard
/ˈfæðəm/
Middle English
Old English
cognate
Old High German
Ancient Greek measure

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