Canadian email I got this morning.

Adex_Xeda · Post by **Adex_Xeda** » November 13, 2002, 12:29 pm

I dont' know if its true, but it made me laugh.

Transcript
>
>This is a transcript of an ACTUAL radio transmission between a US Navy ship
>and Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995
>
>CANADIANS: Please divert your course 15 degrees south to avoid a collision.
>
>AMERICANS: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees north to avoid a
> collision.
>
>CANADIANS: Negative Sir. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to
>the South to avoid collision.
>
>AMERICANS: This is the captain of the US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR
> course.
>
>CANADIANS: No Sir. I say again, you must divert YOUR course.
>
>AMERICANS: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN, THE SECOND
&! gt; LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES' ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE
> ACCOMPANIED BY A TASK FORCE OF THREE DESTROYERS, THREE
> CRUISERS, AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT
> YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH. I SAY AGAIN,
> THAT IS ONE-FIVE DEGREES NORTH, OR COUNTERMEASURES WILL
>BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP.
>
>CANADIANS: This is a lighthouse. Your call.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » November 13, 2002, 12:46 pm

seen that before, very funny.

i'd guess it is fictional, but you never know =)

Kylere · Post by **Kylere** » November 13, 2002, 3:24 pm

The original version is contained in the copy of the official US Navy report; You can find like 30 different variants online of the joke. Some place it back to a reported transcript of a radio conversation between a U.S. Navy ship and a Canadian source off the coast of Newfoundland that was released by the Canadian Chief of Naval operations. Original transcript appeared in the Montreal weekly "Hour". The newest addition is to use the USS Lincoln, origin of the joke implies that it was initially about a fishing boat in Maine.

The following is being transmitted around the Internet as an event that really took place, but it never happened. It is simply an old joke like those found in popular magazines:

"Believe it or not...this is the transcript of an actual radio conversation between a US naval ship and Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October 1995. The Radio conversation was released by the Chief of Naval Operations on Oct. 10, 1995.

US Ship: Please divert your course 0.5 degrees to the south to avoid a collision.

CND reply: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.

US Ship: This is the Captain of a US Navy Ship. I say again, divert your course.

CND reply: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course!

US Ship: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS CORAL SEA*, WE ARE A LARGE WARSHIP OF THE US NAVY. DIVERT YOUR COURSE NOW!!

CND reply: This is a lighthouse. Your call. "

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*Note: USS Coral Sea (CV 43) was decommissioned and scrapped 2 July 1993. Other ships' names appearing have been USS Missouri (BB 63) which was decommissioned on 31 March 1992 and USS Nimitz (CVN 68) which is an active ship.