| 1. | But we will want that fathometer badly as we approach Cape Horn.
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| 2. | The fathometer, or depth sounder, was developed commercially during the 1920s.
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| 3. | At one point her fathometer read only 30 centimeters of water under the keel.
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| 4. | A paper chart moves through the fathometer and is calibrated to record the depth.
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| 5. | The first practical fathometer was invented by Herbert Grove Dorsey and patented in 1928.
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| 6. | The Dorsey Fathometer instrument was used to get a precise measurement of water depth.
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| 7. | There were different models of the fathometer made initially by the Submarine Signal Company.
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| 8. | The indicator of the Dorsey Fathometer was a neon tube on a rotating disc.
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| 9. | Fathometers measure the depth of the waters.
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| 10. | Eventually, CRTs were married with a fathometer for commercial fishing and the fishfinder was born.
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