Funny Sea story

[Kicker]

This is based on an actual radio conversation between a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier (U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln) and Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995.

Canadians: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid collision.

Americans: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision.

Canadians: Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a 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 ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH--I SAY AGAIN, THAT'S ONE FIVE DEGREES NORTH--OR COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP.

Canadians: (Pause) This is a lighthouse. Your call.

[garm]

Yes - I like that one :)

[tensux]

right wing propaganda!!

[chrol]

Well, it does have an undertone suggesting Americans are overly arrogant. Which may or may not be true, but our Navy would never employ a captain that would act so unprofessionally, especially towards an ally as close as Canada.

BUT I will say I enjoyed it as a joke. :D So there, don't jump on my back. :)

Come to think of it, I think I remember reading this in a Reader's Digest a few years back in the Laughter is the Best Medicine section.