Cables?

[Pythos]

What is a cable when it comes to distance? Also, about how many are in a nautical mile.

[Simrealism]

1/10 of a nautical mile or about 185 m.
There are 10 cables per nm to be explicit.

[Pythos]

Originally posted by James:

1/10 of a nautical mile or about 185 m.
There are 10 cables per nm to be explicit.

Thank you. Where were you able to find that info (I am thinking google, which I admit I should have checked, but I was tired and about to hit the sack when I posted :P )

[Jabrwock]

https://www.factmonster.com/math-science/weights-measures/nautical-measurement

A fathom is 6 feet, the length of rope a man can extend from open arm to open arm. The rope was lowered into the sea to measure depth.

A cable length is the length of a ship's cable, about 600 feet.

A nautical mile is 10 cable lengths, or 6,076 feet.

1 nautical mile = 1.1508 miles

A knot is the measure of speed on water. One knot is 1 nautical mile per hour.

[chksix]

1 nm is also 1852 m

[Simrealism]

Originally posted by nc5506h:

Originally posted by James:

1/10 of a nautical mile or about 185 m.
There are 10 cables per nm to be explicit.

Thank you. Where were you able to find that info (I am thinking google, which I admit I should have checked, but I was tired and about to hit the sack when I posted :P )

My brain. I mean I looked it up once upon a time.