Re: Friday humour

Subject: Re: Friday humour
From: Pete Margaritis <chief -at- NCMS1 -dot- CB -dot- LUCENT -dot- COM>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:20:58 -0500

Damien Braniff wrote:
>
> Good communication is everything and we should never be intractable as the
> following shows. (Not being from the US or Canada I feel I'm impartial.)

Agreed. The lighthouse should have moved.

(Sorry. Retired Navy here)

Pete Margaritis
chief -at- ncms1 -dot- cb -dot- lucent -dot- com
Technical Writer
Lucent Technologies

> This is the transcript of an ACTUAL radio conversation of a US naval ship
> with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995.
> **** Radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Operations 10-10-95.
> Americans -
> "Please divert your course 15 degrees to the north to avoid collision."
> Canadians -
> "Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the south to avoid
> collision."
> Americans -
> "This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR
> course."
> Canadians -
> "No, I say again, you divert YOUR course."
> Americans -
> "THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN, THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN
> THE UNITED STATES' ATLANTIC FLEET. WE A RE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE
> DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT
> YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH, THAT'S ONE FIVE DEGREES NORTH,
> OR COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS
> SHIP."
> Canadians -
> "This is a lighthouse. Your call."
>
> Damien Braniff
> Technical Author
> PAC International




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