Can Anyone Tell Me What A Fathom Is Equivalent To...?

Question

...in Metric and Imperial measures?

Answer 1

A fathom is a nautical measurement of 6 feet.

Other nautical measurements:

1 knot = 1 nautical mile per hour

1 nautical mile = 1 minute of latitude at the place you are at.

[the nautical mile varies slightly as we move farther away from the equator North or south, because the earth flattens slightly nearer the poles.  The world is actually an oblate shereoid, not a true sphere in other words.  This is one measurement you cannot use Imperial or metric to define.  However it AVERAGES close to 6080 feet.

Hope this helps.  On older Admiraty charts, soundings are marked in fathoms.

Answer 2

6 feet

Answer 3

A fathom was originally the distance from finger tip to finger tip of a man with his arms outstretched,

A fathom is 6 feet.(finger tip to finger tip length is the same as your height)

Since a meter is 39.36 inches, and a yard is 36 inches,(yard=3 feet), a fathom is about 7 inches short of 2 meters

There is a measurement website that can give you the exact answer

Answer 4

Six feet or 1.829 metres.  Used for measuring depth in water.

In mining and forestry a fathom is a unit of volume equal to 6 cubic feet.

Answer 5

Six feet

Answer 6

1 Fathom = 6 feet

1 Fathom = 1.8288 Meters

Answer 7

One fathom is equal to:

1.8288 metres (1 metre is about 0.5468 fathoms)

2 yards (1 yard is exactly 0.5 fathoms)

4 cubits (1 cubit is exactly 0.25 fathoms)

6 feet (1 foot is about 0.1667 fathoms)

18 hands

72 inches

Answer 8

1.8metres

72 inches

Answer 9

1.8288 metres  2 yards or 6 feet.

Answer 10

AT LEAST A COUPLE OF GOOD DEEP BREATHS IF YOU THINKING OF GOING THAT FAR UNDER.

Answer 11

Sorry, I can't fathom that one out!

Answer 12

Its 6 feet.

Answer 13

6 feet - work out the metric yourself