At 15:13 10/26/2000, John Klun wrote: >David was probably in the Navy or connected to the Maritime industry- >After all, >he lives in Rhode Island and you can almost see the ocean from anywhere in the >state... ;-) Well, I *did* spend about six years in the Navy (as a Hospital Corpsman) -- but I never went to sea. I've been to sea in small boats a little. Mostly I'm interested. I spent much of 1989 and '90 listening to SITOR (ShIp's Telex Over Radio) because it was interesting and I wasn't good for much else at the time. I have several hundred pins in a map where I could log a position, and a couple thousand more intercepts without positions. I once heard the QE II order 60 dozen sets of Wedgewood Clipper for delivery on arrival in NYC four days hence -- figured they must have taken quite a wave, as that's enough china to serve about two-thirds of the passengers. Also a fairly frantic telex from a self-positioning drilling rig whose computers had gone nuts and were driving the thing around in circles. And some other neat stuff. Dropped a dime once on a ship that was planning to flush its cargo tanks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and *particularly* didn't want the Canadian CG to know...tsk tsk. <g> Generally the more interesting the telex, the worse the reception. david David Beierl - Providence, RI http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" '85 GL "Poor Relation" |
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