Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 04:46:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ffffuuuiiiii!!!!!
Subject: BLAGUES-L: Radio Conversation

Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 15:23:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Laporte Isabelle
From: john (j.) grant


This is the transcript of an actual radio conversation of a US ship
with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in
October 1995.
(Reprinted in the Memorial University campus paper.)

#1- Please divert your course 15 degrees to the north to
avoid collision.

#2- Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the
south to avoid collision.

#1- This is the Captain of a US Navy ship.  I say again, divert
YOUR course.

#2- No, I say again, you divert YOUR course.

#1- This is the aircraft carrier USS Missouri.  We are a large
warship of the US Navy.  Divert your course now!

#2- This is a lighthouse.  Your call.