Fathom was upset and rose to the surface. A "shot", one of the forged lengths of chain joined by shackles to form an anchor cable, was usually 15 fathoms long (). A "shackle", a length of cable or chain equal to 12.5 fathoms or 75 feet. In 1949, the British navy redefined the shackle to be 15 fathoms. In Finland, fathom ("syli") is sometimes, albeit seldom, used as a maritime unit, of a nautical mile and of cable length. It is customary, when burying the dead, to bury the coffin at least to a depth of a fathom, or "six feet
Fathom Five (comics) regrouped near Atlantis where they affronted and defeated some Atlantean troops sent by Namor to stop them. Fathom Five attacked New York a second time. One of Dragonrider's beasts destroyed the Brooklyn Bridge. Fathom Five battle again with the Thunderbolts, helped by Warbird, and was defeated by them. Llyron and Sea Leopard managed to escape. Bloodtide, Dragonrider and Manowar were taken into custody. Bloodtide and Manowar later appear as members of Namor's Defenders of the Deep. Bloodtide is a supervillain of Atlantean heritage, a Homo mermanus, who first appeared in "New Thunderbolts" #1 (January, 2005). Bloodtide's body was "ravaged by