US navy ships instructions

[SPRING]

Actual transmission from a US navy destroyer to a unidentified radar target directly in it path;

 

US Navy Destroyer;

This is US Navy destroyer to unidentified contact bearing dead ahead, come left to my port

 

Unidentified targets response;

negative,suggest you come right from my current position

 

US Navy Destroyers response;

US Navy destroyer to vessel dead ahead, negative!, My vessel has right of way, I am warning you once again to come left to my port! Our vessels are in danger of a collision,I insist you heed my instructions!

Or I will be forced to take offensive action!

 

Unidentified targets response;

To the US NAVY SHIP,This is the Point Loma lighthouse, up to you

[mykl]

I know it's a joke but have you ever seen the tip of Point Loma on radar? It's not like you could mistake it for anything else. Picky, picky, picky, that's me.

[Montydog]

Came from an advertisement I believe;

 

YouTube

[SPRING]

Hmmmmm..lets see..I have worked on a US navy ship the last 20 years..I am stationed out of Point Loma,,,in daily contact and privy to intel that only people like me have access to...well...lol....

anyway ,no, the above incident really happened,now I may have gotten the light house wrong ..but the rest

is so true,and I could tell you other sea storys that you would find very hard to beleive

[Sailfast]

Hmmmmm..lets see..I have worked on a US navy ship the last 20 years..I am stationed out of Point Loma,,,in daily contact and privy to intel that only people like me have access to...well...lol....

anyway ,no, the above incident really happened,now I may have gotten the light house wrong ..but the rest

is so true,and I could tell you other sea storys that you would find very hard to beleive

 

 

 

http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthouse.asp

 

 

 

Was John Cleese at the helm?

[mykl]

Hmmmmm..lets see..I have worked on a US navy ship the last 20 years..I am stationed out of Point Loma,,,in daily contact and privy to intel that only people like me have access to...well...lol....

anyway ,no, the above incident really happened,now I may have gotten the light house wrong ..but the rest

is so true,and I could tell you other sea storys that you would find very hard to beleive

 

I have entered and exited from San Diego more times than I can count. Trust me, you would not mistake the Point Loma Lighthouse as a moving target. Buoy SD1 perhaps, but not the lighthouse.

[Eneukman]

I don't know whether it's a true conversation or not, but it's ancient. The version I have somewhere on my PC has a Canadian lighthouse. I also received another version a week or so ago involving an Irish lighthouse.

 

Alan

[SPRING]

Ok, I just did a google search and the US navy has published a disclaimer claiming that this never happened

and its just an urban myth...everybody happy