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Note: The following has been floating around the Internet. Its authenticity cannot be verified.



This is the transcript of the actual radio conversation of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the Newfoundland coast in October 1995. Radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Operations 10-10-95.

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

Americans: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees 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: This is a lighthouse. Your call.

BPB - Ha HA - I win!!!!

Sorry, funny story, not sure if it really happened or not though.

ha ha funny, but not true....

http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthse.htm

As Mobius and Felix have so aptly covered, it's both incredibly old and incredibly untrue.  Hoorah.  

Sorry, I'm just really tired of seeing this posted everywhere all the time.  It is a good gag though

Wasn't it made into a commercial?

yep  somewhere on stupidvideos.com

Wasn't it made into a commercial?

Here

LOL