My husband just picked this up from a beekeeping chat: This is the actual radio conversation of a US Naval ship and the Canadian Authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in Oct. of 1995. Radio conversation released by US Chief of Naval Operations Atlantic Oct. 10, 1995: Canadians: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision Americans:Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the North Canadians:Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collison Americans:This is the captain us a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course Canadians:No, I say again, you must 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 MISSILE CRUISERS, THREE DESTROYERS, AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES TO THE NORTH. I SAY AGAIN, ONE FIVE DEGREES NORTH, OR COUNTERMEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP Canadians: We are a lighthouse. Your call. _________________
It's funny how some stories hang around forever, they get updated every few years with new dates and names but the good ones last forever. This story has had many incarnations. Some form of it was even a one panel cartoon in a newspaper in 1931. I first read it in Reader's Digest back in the 1980's
