Fathometer
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The jagged line on the Fathometer confirmed that we were in the swordfish's favorite haunt, a 1,100-ft.-deep stretch of the bathtub-warm Gulf Stream.
From Time Magazine Archive
No one had asked the Fathometer operator for a sounding; the radar plotter had never sent his shoalwater reports to the bridge.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fathometer soundings showed it was on a steep upward slope of the continental shelf.
From Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung by Charles Brey
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