With this information, you can calculate the quantity of meters per second 17 knots is equal to.

¿What is the inverse calculation between 1 meter per second and 17 knots?

Performing the inverse calculation of the relationship between units, we obtain that 1 meter per second is 0.11434379 times 17 knots.

Which is the same to say that 17 knots is 8.7455556 meters per second.

Seventeen knots equals to eight meters per second. *Approximation

A meter per second is zero times seventeen knots. *Approximation