Interesting interaction with a the captain👨‍✈️ from “Texas Highway”!

On my early shift one morning I noticed a cargo ship 10 nmiles away. I did my calculations and realized we where definitely on collision course give or take a couple of hundred meters. This cargo ship was 350m in length and 50 m wide. So a couple of hundred meters is not a lot. Texas Highway was moving at 19.88 nm/hour so I needed to make a decision to either change course or slow down from going a whopping 7nm/hour! I thought about it and decided to hail them! A sleepy captain with an Eastern European accent answered! First he says “who arrre you?” I answered by saying “sailing vessel Sarantium” and stated my position and heading, and my speed. He mumbled something and disappeared. Hmmmm…. I waited and waited. And then he came back and said “Sarantium, we will alter our course starboard to give you more clearance, good watch…out” I watched the giant cargo ship do a wide berth around us and felt proud!

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