In effect a traverse would be run with the ship's bearing measured by compass and distances obtained either by measuring speed and time or by a modern log that directly records distances.
The Iranian Mohammad Khalvandi threw a world record distance in the F58 class with his first throw of 50.98, corresponding to a points score of 1,034.
In 1986 he jumped a British record distance of 68m in Kandersteg, Switzerland, to bring his Olympic dream that much closer.
He knew he was not going to soar to a record distance, but he wanted to pay his respects to the fans.
Harris captured the long jump with a meet-record distance of 23 feet 10 inches, his personal indoor best, and the triple jump at 45-10.
The current world-record distance for driving an electric car on one charge is 623 miles, achieved by members of the Japan Electric Vehicle Club in a converted Daihatsu travelling at 25mph around an oval race track.
Here are a few noteworthy sojourns: 40,000 miles: Willow has nothing on the sooty shearwater, an oceangoing bird with a forty-three inch wingspan, which covers a record distance of forty thousand miles, from New Zealand to Alaska, every year.
The current record distance for measuring entangled particles is 1,200 kilometers or about 745.6 miles.
Now scientists have set a new record distance for monitoring such links out in the open.
One of the new handset's distinguishing features is a sensor on its back used to record distance.
