nautical mile

"We went about two nautical miles off the coast, " he said. "There were still oil sheens there. "

However, an official from the airline says the search area has now been narrowed down to a zone of a few nautical miles.

In the dark night, a few nautical miles to the starboard, loomed the gigantic turtle, Gueshan Island.

"Our plane was hit in international airspace, 13 nautical miles out of Syria, when Syrian territorial space is 12 miles, " he said.

Under the United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea an island can generate its own Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of 200 nautical miles.

The office is urging merchant ships to stay at least 200 nautical miles off Somalia.

Captain TT decided to put out nets around two nautical miles offshore from Bom Bay island.

"We went about two nautical miles off the coast, " he said.

The number of knots that were counted during a fixed period of time gave the speed of the ship in nautical miles per hour.

The navy patrol vessel HMAS Wollongong intercepted the boat about 12 nautical miles off Christmas Island.

In law, all coastal states can exploit the natural resources on and below the seabed up to 200 nautical miles from shore.

Speed measured in nautical miles per hour is referred to as knots .

Coastguards of the Cape Verde islands are quoted as saying the cargo ship was some 400 nautical miles off one of the Archipelago's islands.

The ship was some 150 nautical miles south-east of the Omani port of Salalah and heading for Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.

Ningbo-Zhoushan Port is a typical foggy port with a longer waterways(about 40 nautical miles)and serious unbalanced visibility.

He had planned to take the convoy through the Dampier Strait and enter the Solomon Sea about 50 nautical miles northeast of Finschafen.

Whenever I immersed in "the sea" in time, I will forget all around, in nautical miles of the tour.

Saudi Arabian supertanker, the Sirius Star, was seized by Somali pirates about 450 nautical miles off the Kenyan coast on November 15th.

The focal plane of the light is 200 feet above mean sea level, and in clear weather it should be seen at a distance of 23 nautical miles.

Two 23-meter yachts race over 20 nautical miles up and down a sausage-shaped course marked out by two buoys .

A mosaic jellyfish floats serenely in the waters of the Coral Sea, about 100 nautical miles from Cairns, Australia.

Peter Kivuyo, Tanzania's police marine chief, says his force might reach five nautical miles offshore "if the waves are small" .

Tuna is a species of marine fish which migrates in the high seas and coastal countries' exclusive economic waters of 200 nautical miles.

The minimum distance from the mainland is now 5. 2 nautical miles; Nantucket town is 14 miles away from the proposed blades.

Tanzania's navy chief, Brigadier Said Omar, says that his fleet never reaches the high seas; its operational range is 20 nautical miles.

MV Rena is grounded 13. 5 nautical miles off Tauranga. The reef can be seen to the right of the vessel.

The breadth of the contiguous zone is twelve nautical miles.

In fact the Independence and Nimitz groups approached no closer than 100 nautical miles of the other side of Taiwan.

Imagine, the intrusion happened 85 nautical miles nearest our coast and 600 nautical miles away from China's nearest coast .

The International Maritime Bureau advises ships to keep 200 nautical miles off Somalia.

The site includes approximately37, 000 ha and a marine area extending3 nautical miles to sea.

Hydrothermal vents of this kind are found roughly every 100km (54 nautical miles) along the 65, 000km or so of mid-ocean ridge.

It features ultra-quiet turboprop engines, virtual reality windows and is designed to fly at Mach 0. 55 for 800 nautical miles.

The Atlantic current moved at 33 nautical miles a day; he figured that would take a seed more than 1, 300 miles in 42 days.

However, if you use nautical miles, which equal 1-minute of latitude at the earth's equator.

But few of these products are bound for Cuba, just 550 nautical miles (1, 000km) away.

Yesterday I talked of nautical miles and knots.

The 31-year old Carl Vinson is powered by two nuclear reactors and travels at more than 30 nautical miles per hour.

Anchor position bearing 035 degrees, distance 3 nautical miles from Barr Head lighthouse.

The fishing grounds that have been developed in China's sea areas cover 818000 square nautical miles.

When the dolphins swim in the waves before the destroyer, the speed up to 30-32 nautical miles (about 54-58 km per hour).

In this way, a free nautical miles in the growth of the sea became a wizard on such days Miyazato of keeping a fish.

6689 nautical miles to the west coast of America, and 1693 nautical miles to Osaka, Japan.

Territorial seas - adjacent waters spanninga maximum of 12 nautical miles from their coastlines, including the coastlineof offshore islands.

Yuan-class submarines with cruise 1200-2500 nautical miles radius.

The two others are about 20 nautical miles (35 kilometers) away.

Change radar to 3 nautical miles range scale.

Advance 2 nautical miles transfer distance 3 degrees.

This aircraft is designed to fly at Mach 0. 79 carrying 154 passengers 3, 500 nautical miles.

This aircraft is designed to fly at Mach 0. 83 carrying 354 passengers 7, 600 nautical miles.

It is designed to fly at Mach 0. 75 carrying 120 passengers 1, 600 nautical miles.

the ship is more than 12 nautical miles from the nearest land

In March last year an attack took place 975 nautical miles south of Haradheere, close to Madagascar;