The fathometer was the only operable piece of equipmentdespite having stopped working briefly right after the attackbut the depth finder could do little to guide the injured Liberty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Attack on the Liberty] Reference

A fathometer and a compass were bolted to the overhead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fire and Ice]

A fathometer of similar design extended beneath the prow of the sub.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift Jr And His Jetmarine]

Swanson nodded, pursed his lips, and walked away to examine the ice fathometer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Station Zebra]

"I think I'll use the fathometer to find out how deep it is here," Tom remarked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift Jr And His Jetmarine]

She was cranky that night, steaming the Kattegat with her sonar and fathometer down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heirs of Babylon]

We settled gradually, in a maddeningly deliberate slow motion, the fathometer needle hardly appearing to move.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fear is the Key]

Farther aft, a man at the surface fathometer was reading out ice-thickness figures in a quiet, unemotional voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Station Zebra]

The ships fathometer, which for a while only functioned on the hundred-fathom scale, revealed the Liberty entering shallow waters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Attack on the Liberty] Reference

All he would have to do is drop down, come under us here, start a grid search with his ice fathometer, and it would be only minutes before he located the relatively thin ice out in that lead there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Station Zebra]

Submarines that operate in the Arctic also have specialized sonar for under-ice operation; think of an upside-down fathometer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Way back before the ships that map our coastal areas were part of NOAA, we made corrections to our fathometer (depth) readings for temperature and salinity.    From Wordnik.com.  [RealClimate] Reference

"The Dolphin has an ice fathometer, a device for measuring the thickness of the overhead ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Station Zebra]

The small islands that used to dot the Columbia, before the dams, are now nothing more than high points on a fisherman’s fathometer graph.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kayaking the Columbia River.] Reference

Her fathometer and sonar had died before she had, and Mahnmut had committed perhaps the most ancient and most grievious of sea captain’s offenses — running his ship aground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ilium]

Radar, fathometer and gyroscope inoperable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Attack on the Liberty] Reference

Jacques was at the viewport and I was looking at our fathometer calling off our height above the bottom when he saw the bottom and the fish. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

"The surface fathometer," Swanson said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Station Zebra]

Hydraulic net reel, 7 floating nets, 2 diving nets, CB, fathometer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference