A nautical unit of measure equal to one tenth of a nautical mile is known as a cable or nautical cable. In nautical terms, a cable is approximately 608 feet or 185.2 meters long. It is commonly used for measuring distances at sea, especially when referring to the depth of water.
6 feet = 1 fathom.
Are you talking about Naval, like the ocean? There is the fathom, equal to 6 feet, and the International Nautical Mile, equal to 1852 meters.
a nautical mile is 1.852 km and a mile is (statute)1.609344 km so a mile is bigger than a nautical mile
A fathom is a nautical measurement equal to 6 feet.
A fathom was classically measured as the length of the tip of the finger from one outstretched arm, to the tip of the finger from the opposite outstretched arm, but is now standardized to 6 feet.
A fathom is ten feet depth in nautical terms so if an item is three fathoms deep it is approximately thirty feet below the surface of the ocean.
There are 6,076 feet in a nautical mile.
1 nautical mile = 1.85200 kilometers 1 nautical mile = 1.15077945 mile
Nautical mile is usually designated by nmi. An international nautical mile is defined as 1852 meters.
A fathom is a nautical term representing six feet. Thus, two fathoms is twelve feet.
I nautical mile = 1.852 kilometres.