The following is a summary of an actual marine radio transmision in alaska several years ago. Operator one: Attention vessel traveling south in Lynn canal. We have detected you on our radar. We are on a collision course please turn your vessel 45 degrees to the east! Operator two: Attention vessel traveling north in Lynn Canal. We have you on our radar and confirm that we are on a collision course, but we suggest you turn 45 degrees to the east. Operator one: This is seaman ..........of the U.S.............with Admiral............aboard we suggest you turn east because this is a battle ship! Operator two: and we suggest you turn east because this is a lighthouse. Bob Sitka *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
> The following is a summary of an actual marine radio transmision in alaska > several years ago. Gee... those naval vessels seem to be targeting lighthouses all over the Pacific.... :-) Maybe we need a myths and urban legends section of the PaddleWise website. How about, "High Tales of the High Seas" ? Nah, never mind. We don't have that much room :-) Cheers, Jackie (who especially liked the report of the shark fishing competition for the largest shark captured from a kayak....) *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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