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The difference between Speed over Ground (SOG) and Speed through Water

(STW). Speed over Ground is the vessel's speed with respect the land or any
other fixed object such as buoys, while Speed through Water is the vessel's
speed with respect the water or anything floating on water. The difference occurs
more likely in the distance when there’s wind and current. Speed over Ground
and Speed through Water in a given speed and hour per nautical mile their
distance is equal without any wind and current. When the current is ahead and a
vessel departed the current can affect any object in the water, Speed through
Water will start measured in any object that moved in the water by the current
and ends in the ships given nautical mile in an hour, while Speed over Ground
when the current is ahead it is only measured in the land and ends in ships given
(Nm/h). I’d noticed a difference in the given Nm/h, so the Speed over Ground and
Speed through Water will contrast when wind and current appeared.

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