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Re: What level of english skills is needed for safe navigation?
From: Francis Upchurch
Date: 2019 Mar 1, 18:40 -0000
From: Francis Upchurch
Date: 2019 Mar 1, 18:40 -0000
We have a rather lovely local Irish version of this. Believed to be true by all locals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePi4dieDS8Y. Francis -----Original Message----- From: NavList@fer3.com [mailto:NavList@fer3.com] On Behalf Of Frank Reed Sent: 01 March 2019 16:46 To: francisupchurch@gmail.com Subject: [NavList] Re: What level of english skills is needed for safe navigation? Tony, you wrote: "This reminds a (fictitious?) story of radio communications between an aircraft carrier and a lighthouse." Yes, fictitious. It's an old joke that was one of the first "this is 100% true" email forwards back in the early days of the Internet, circa 1996. There's a nice write-up of the history of the story: [LINK: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-obstinate-lighthouse/] Obstinate lighthouse on snopes.com. There are many fun urban legends on snopes. Here's a goofy one involving [LINK: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cargo-ships-atlantic-map/] AIS and ship tracking apps. You can spend hours in there exploring conspiracies, confusions, and crazy tall tales... Frank Reed [plain text auto-generated] ---------------------------------------------------------------- NavList message boards and member settings: http://fer3.com/NavList Members may optionally receive posts by email. To cancel email delivery, send a message to NoMail[at]fer3.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- : http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx/What-level-english-skills-needed-for-safe-navigation-FrankReed-mar-2019-g44473
