Nautical used in a sentence

Nautical in a sentence as an adjective

One showed the distance in nautical miles, the other in statute.

One nautical mile is very nearly the length of one minute of arc at the earth's surface.

Because the rest of the crew has actual nautical duties, the kids from Fiesta Caliente are trained to man the lifeboats.

Not mentioning that the nautical mile is essentially 1 minute of arc on any meridian, which is the key fact.

Once you have the distance of nautical mile, then it's reasonable to measure your speed with respect to something fixed relative to the water around you.

From Wikipedia:\n"The nautical mile is a unit of length that is approximately one minute of arc measured along any meridian.

In 1999, however, the United States announced that it was extending its contiguous zone to 24 nautical miles to protect against the infringements mentioned above.

We already use nautical analogies for businesses, anyway.

In both cases, the use actually has a very good, albeit obsolete, reason: one nautical mile is equal to one arc minute of latitude on the Earth, to within reasonable accuracy.

Small pockets of sea-life survive on reefs in national parks, but as you look up from the water, you see trawlers scattered across the horizon - soundly within the nautical boundaries of the national parks.

Depending on the atmospheric conditions, they will be visible to each other at about 10 nautical miles, which gives them an entire minute to spot each other and maneuver to avoid a collision.

Others have reputations for being psycho assholes [not mentioning names].I have around 20k nautical miles, 2 atlantic crossings, cruised africa, thailand, and my younger bro and parents put me to shame in miles/experience.

"A spokesman from the service told Australian newspapers that while some map makers intentionally include phantom streets to prevent copyright infringements, that was was not usually the case with nautical charts because it would reduce confidence in them.

If enough ice melts that there's a passage between them which doesn't come within 12 nautical miles of an island's coast, then there's a passage that isn't in Canada's territorial waters, and Canada can't, under current international law, forbid ships using the passage.