Fathom
fathom
/ ˈfaðəm /
1. A unit of length equal to six feet (approximately 1.8 metres), chiefly used in reference to the depth of water.
2. (archaic) The span of the outstretched arms; an embrace.
1. Measure the depth of (water) using a sounding line or echo sounder.
2. Understand (a difficult problem or situation) after much thought. "she couldn't fathom why he'd lied"
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made.
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Fathom Five is a small consultancy and a space for thinking. The work spans complex engineered systems, the frameworks that govern them, and the questions those frameworks have not yet caught up with. This site is where that thinking happens in the open: the technical, the historical, the occasionally fathomless.