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Sentence Examples A rock had suddenly risen out of the depths not three fathoms from the point of the bow. This lay on the bed of the South China Sea for almost 200 years at a depth of 17 fathoms. This shark, common in deep waters, is occasionally found in depths as shallow as 20 fathoms. With great sadness they buried him in 2,700 fathoms of water, some 300 miles from Tahiti. I saw real cities of the surface world, lying in ruins under a thousand fathoms of water. He is still miles and fathoms and nautical miles and light years ahead of everyone else in baseball. All nets had to be licensed annually and were taxed at the rate of five dollars for every net 65 fathoms in length or smaller. In the forenoon we skirted the Island, getting 30 and 40 fathoms of water north and west of Inaccessible Island. We trolled a zig-zag course along a drop-off, the deep water hitting 150 fathoms. As the standard length of rope required just to drop anchor was 120 fathoms, the market was a big one. The depth sounder tells him how deep his traps are, and the deepest ones we we'll hit today are in about 40 fathoms, or 240 feet, of water. The first column is the circumference in inches and the other three columns are fathoms, feet, and inches. They are reported to be capable of diving to depths of 100 to 150 fathoms and remain submerged for up to 15 minutes. If your boat is in the water and cannot be trailered, move it offshore to waters over 200 fathoms deep as soon as a Tsunami Warning is declared. A man leaped into the chains, and lowering down the lead sounded in seven fathoms. On March 23, 1875, 13 days after leaving Nares Harbor, soundings indicated a depth of 4,475 fathoms or about 27,000 feet. Deep soundings above 6 fathoms were impracticable so the practice then was to sound the depth using a line and lead. If you had that net in 20 to 30 fathoms of water, you might have had 10,000 pounds of cod in six nets. Downstream we have a commercial fishery that's entitled to use drift nets that are 220 fathoms long. At 20 fathoms the winze came out into the side of a large stope which was curved so that despite being on the footwall there was a grave danger of sliding over the edge. Show More Sentences He finally found perfectly reasonable-sized rockfish in 60 fathoms of water. At 4 A.M., they deployed the dredge in the hope of getting something before the weather got too bad but had to pull it up before it passed 1,300 fathoms. In the top right hand corner all PI depth sensors are fully marked down to 80 fathoms. So really, you put in blackback nets, but direct them for cod, in 15 fathoms of water. When you come out of our harbour, you go a quarter of a mile and, poof, you're in 200 fathoms. The inshore fishery is restricted to waters outside of headlands and deeper than 10 fathoms. In the middle of Christie Pass there are two reef pinnacles that probably come up to within 12 or 14 fathoms of the surface. In our bay, you don't put your gillnets in 80 fathoms of water to catch cod. So we have to go about seven miles before we get 10 or 15 fathoms of water, to get any room to put gear down. We have a community up the Fraser River, but still in the lower Fraser River, that wants to use drift nets that are up to 50 fathoms long. So in regard to the inshore fisherman, if you went into Smith Sound right now and you were in less than 20 fathoms of water, you would find fish. George Rose said that besides the five million pounds that floated up, the fish were still 14 fathoms deep. The vessel sank in over one hundred fathoms of water and has not been recovered. It's out in 10 to 15 fathoms of water and you're going to pick up 1,000 or 1,100 pounds of cod out of six nets? The existing exclusion zone line is being moved out to a depth of 20 fathoms. The first thing is you're shooting your gear into 160, 170, or 180 fathoms of water. Obviously somebody told this individual that these rockfish don't live in 60 fathoms. We found the cable cut about two fathoms from the hawsehole. A couple of miles off Punta Arena the water is said to drop away into 100 fathoms or 600-feet, and double that distance just beyond the Pulmo Shoals. To their horror, the engine of the boat failed in 23 fathoms of water. Show More Sentences The maximum reported depth reached by the species is 194 fathoms. This plateau has a general depth of 400 fathoms, suddenly dropping off on its eastern edge to over 2000 fathoms. A kite was a drag, towed under water at any depth up to about 40 fathoms, which upon striking bottom, was upset and rose to the surface. The rope called a groundline, used to form the main line of a setline, was usually provided in bundles of 300 fathoms. The components of a commercial fisherman's setline were measured in fathoms. He bound the entire play to his wrecked view of experience and had no qualms about playing up and down the vocal register – in the dark backward and abysm of time we did indeed plummet several throaty fathoms deep. They cannot estimate anything that's less than 20 fathoms. However, they are more common in shallower water to 17 fathoms. When fishermen set a net under 400 fathoms in the Atlantic Ocean today for turbot-a familiar word-they must have by regulation a net size of seven and a half inches. I've seen that out of one net this year in 180 fathoms. Yet given the stakes and compared with the mighty Fed, CEBS is fathoms out of its depth. A lot depends, then, on national regulators, which do have real muscle and resources. A cable length, based on the length of a ship's cable, has been variously reckoned as equal to 100 or 120 fathoms. It is easily entered, sheltered by high lands, and a vessel may anchor in three fathoms, close under the shore in good holding ground. The city was 850 fathoms in length while the seaside town was 400 fathoms in length. Do we want to find out how much cod is in 15 fathoms of water? In 1949, the British navy redefined the shackle to be 15 fathoms. Examples from Classical Literature The magnetometer recording showed that a very large mass of magnetic material lay on the ocean bottom, fifty fathoms down. Eight hundred fathoms broad at this point, the Niger flowed between banks richly grown with cruciferous plants and tamarind-trees. A quarter of a mile in, we sounded a second time, and had forty-three fathoms. The wind had died out, and they had dropped the anchor in forty-three fathoms. It was said, afterwards, we were in five fathoms water at this time, but for this I will not vouch. The expression used, however, for fathoms is passus, presumably the Roman measure equal to 58.1 inches. In the evening we anchored in seven fathoms on the north side of sea elephant Rock, which we visited the following morning. Between the main and this sand, the channel is nine and ten fathoms, and the shoaling is rather fast. They were going and coming with the sounding line sometimes finding 10 fathoms, at others 100 fathoms. This reef is very broken and hummocky and has a rocky bottom and depths from 14 to 20 fathoms. And you can drop a lead line close to the edge of the reef anywhere about Ocean Island, and get no soundings at forty fathoms. It'ud take a ten-thousand tonner with fathoms to spare right away up to the mooring berth. For example, in the maldivian islands the buildings are made of a hard stone weighed up from several fathoms under water. It so happened that half-way down the cliff, which is twelve fathoms high, there was a boy named manaia. The greatest depth at which the pearl oyster can be secured by the divers is thirteen fathoms. This is a winter haddock ground having depths averaging 50 fathoms over a ridgy and broken bottom. At this moment, Professor, the Nautilus is stranded in five fathoms, and we have nothing to do but to start. The Carnatic went fifty fathoms out of the line at that one twist. In the chart room some days ago I learned we had 3000 fathoms under us. In her bows lay a tiny anchor, two jugs of water, and some seventy fathoms of thin, brown dory-roding. Show More Sentences There were ninety-eight fathoms of shell-money, which is pretty close to five hundred in itself. Close to the edge, the sounding line gave a depth of 10 fathoms. The penetrating power of the solar rays does not seem to cease for a depth of one hundred and fifty fathoms. The one oar, the baler, and a few fathoms of line on the floorboards. The onrush of a conquering force is like the bursting of pent-up waters into a chasm a thousand fathoms deep. The stems or trunks of this vine are tougher and more flexible than willow, and are from fifty to one hundred fathoms in length. They were in a winze about thirty fathoms from the engine-shaft. They've got one hundred fathoms of shell money on his head now, which is worth one hundred pounds sterling. The shoaling indicated by a sounding of 310 fathoms taken in Lat. The entrance from the sea is sixty-seven fathoms deep, and within, whole navies might ride with perfect safety. Besides, I use subsidiary reservoirs only to attain a mean depth of 750 to 1,000 fathoms, and that with a view of managing my machines. In the middle of the spear you must have two strong chains ten fathoms in length. I could have kissed their rough, cold iron palms in gratitude if they had not been buried in slimy mud under ten fathoms of water. A coil of new tow-line was then unwound, and some fathoms of it taken to the windlass, and stretched to a great tension. There, in three or four fathoms of water, between the reefs of Pacou and Vanou, lay anchors, cannons, pigs of lead and iron, embedded in the limy concretions. The Nautilus, having passed the outer belt of rocks by a narrow strait, found itself among breakers where the sea was from thirty to forty fathoms deep. A slight declivity ended in an uneven bottom, at fifteen fathoms depth. It had a body like an ox, and legs like a frog, two short fore-legs, and two long ones behind, and besides that it had a tail like a serpent, ten fathoms in length. The monster emerged some fathoms from the water, and then threw out that very intense but mysterious light mentioned in the report of several captains. The West Indian Islands stand on a deeply submerged bank, nearly 1000 fathoms in depth, and here we find American forms, but the species and even the genera are distinct. Show More Sentences In the evening we ran in behind False Cape Horn, and dropped our anchor in forty-seven fathoms, fire flashing from the windlass as the chain rushed round it. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of fathoms? Words that rhyme with fathoms What is the adjective for fathoms? What is the noun for fathoms? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words fathomlessly fathomless fathoming Fathometer fathometer Fathomed fatidic fatigability fatigable fatigue fatigued fatigues 7-letter Words Starting With f fa fat fath fatho fathom