nautical
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A local captain told me he had seen a CrossWave at Frying Pan Shoals Tower, 30 nautical miles off Cape Fear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
The aircraft carrier traveled more than 85,000 nautical miles carrying around 5,000 sailors during its 10-month deployment, described as “one of the most operationally intense and consequential of the modern era” by U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
The interior ministry said it sank about 30 nautical miles south of the fishing port of Sfantu Gheorghe.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
Spanish Maritime Rescue teams located the vessel some 65 nautical miles southwest of Gran Canaria's coastal town of Arguineguín on Wednesday and found 44 survivors, with five dead bodies also on board.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Finally they made it all the way to the port at Saigon, more than five hundred nautical miles south of Da Nang.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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