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... and that was like, a couple hundred feet. The Titanic is at 12,500 feet. An unfathomable amount of pressure.



objection, that is clearly 2083 1/3 fathoms of pressure.


12500 ft is 2083.33 fathoms.


This reply is leagues ahead.

What other nautical-related terms are a part of common speech?


I'm tying myself in knots trying to think of one.


Those are two different meaning of the same word though, and the one in your usage is not specifically nautical, so I’m not sure it qualifies. But a good pun nonetheless.


> Those are two different meaning of the same word though, and the one in your usage is not specifically nautical,

So it was ... notical?


These puns are so deep


There is so much pressure to come up with one.




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