[null and void]

To be fair, we only heard one side of the conversation, the captain may well have said they were Blocked in, and the Coastie repeated back his understanding, he heard they were Locked in.

Hopefully there are tapes of both sides of the conversation, and if not, why not?

[_Jim]

re: “ Hopefully there are tapes of both sides of the conversation, and if not, why not? “

Who sits around recording CH 16 marine (156.800 MHz) calls?

Coast guard could have had a ‘tape’ rolling ...