This is *supposedly* 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 a collision.

Canadians: Recommend you 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, 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.

P.S. Is this true – or another urban (or aquatic) myth?

One response:

Since the “THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN” pulled into the piers at Alameda, Ca. on the 10th of October, 1995; it would have been mighty difficult for it to have been on a collision course with a lighthouse off of coast of Newfoundland on that same date.

History:

April 11, 1995, USS Lincoln departed on its third WestPac deployment. The ship made port visits in Hong Kong (May 5 – 9) and Singapore (May 14 – 19), before entering the Arabian Gulf May 26, 1995. The crew made port visits to Jebel-Ali, United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), four times during the first two months in the gulf. In response to renewed Iraqi military posturing, the Lincoln Battle Group was required to remain in the Arabian Gulf to participate in Operation Vigilant Sentinel. With plans to visit Australia dashed, the ship visited Jebel-Ali one more time before departing the Arabian Gulf on Sept. 11, 1995. The Lincoln took on family members and friends in Hawaii for a Tiger Cruise home, arriving in Alameda, Calif. Oct. 10, 1995.

An Old Salt, US Navy (retired)

~~~

This is a repeat of a tale about a friends Indian colleague at work. Two doctors Indian descent were having a heated discussion in the corridors of a London hospital along the lines of:- “It is definitely oobly oobly oobly” No said the other “It’s ubble bubble ubble”. Neither would concede, and after a while one of their English friends asked if he could solve the argument. “No” was the response, “we doubt whether you’ve ever seen an Elephant in the wild let alone heard one fart under water!”

Another responded: It would depend on whether it was the African or Indian elephant. 🙂

~~~