Fathoms [verb]

He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.

On the 11th of May, the sounding lead was cast, and bottom was found at 80b fathoms; a sign that they were upon the Codfish Banks.

A Naval Officer who has seen her says she is lying in shallow water—6 fathoms—bottom upwards looking like a stranded whale.

If it continues the same we can continue to sink 20 fathoms per month, exclusive of the time it will take to fix the lifts.

We have cut the south lode at the adit level about 50 or 60 fathoms east of the engine, and have driven about 20 fathoms on it.

The Dick being a little to leeward of our track, had four fathoms; but the least we had was five and three-quarters.

We were now drifting to the South by East through a wide channel, sounding in between fifty and sixty fathoms, rocky bottom.

Between these two ranges of islands we only obtained one cast of the lead which gave us thirty-three fathoms on a coral bottom.

At sunset we anchored at about four miles from the shore, in seventeen fathoms sandy ground.

Our soundings were between fifteen and seventeen fathoms, and our distance from the beach from six to seven miles.