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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
Dead wrong about save our souls. Sorry, but SOS as a distress signal was created by the Germans. Not the English and not the Americans. Not by Morse, who only created the code not the distress signal.
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As I said, I know it was not morse who decided SOS was an emergency signal. But, further reading shows that you are correct the letters SOS are not significant. I found some interesting article here about it:
http://boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/060199tip6.htm
Although it doesn't mention Germans at all.
BOb
BTW: Is there a difference between being "wrong" and "dead wrong"?
