Why Do Sailors Use Knots And Nautical Miles Instead of Kilometers?!?!?

In this video we describe why sailors use knots and nautical miles to navigate instead of kilometers.

Locations on the earth's surface are typically marked using degrees of latitude and longitude. Degrees are further broken down into minutes, and one nautical mile is defined as one minute of latitude, so it is very easy to calculate the distance between two points on the surface of the earth.

Airplane pilots tend to use knots and nautical miles for the exact same reason.

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