Beers like Two Hundred fathoms illustrate how far Irish stout has come in the last few years.

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Shackleton found that the spot was in fact deep sea, with soundings up to 1, 900 fathoms.

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Yet given the stakes and compared with the mighty Fed, CEBS is fathoms out of its depth.

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Despite a West Indian history immersed in the rum trade, the Seven Fathoms Distillery produces the only spirit made entirely in the Cayman Islands.

BBC: Sunken rum in the Cayman Islands

There's barely time to understand what's happening before a flash of silver whale's skin breaks the surface, dips beneath a wave and plunges down to the dark fathoms of the North Atlantic.

BBC: An Icelandic journey to the centre of the earth

You end up thinking of comedy as Hemingway thought of narrative: structured like an iceberg, with all the greater satisfactions fathoms under water, while the surface pleasure of the joke is somehow the least of it.

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