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Old 11-19-13, 06:39 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by GJO View Post
it was between my position and a Danish tug boat that was at least 1000 Metres further away - the watch crew reported the tug boat and it also showed up as a single grey square on my chart but the nearer ship just wasn't there according to the crew and the chart . . .
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Originally Posted by Jimbuna View Post
The 'Lightship' is an environmental object ingame and therefore indestructible or registering on your hydrophone, hence a tug or similar vessel is scripted close by as a means of giving you advance warning of its presence.
Yep, that explains it. I didn't think of that until I read the description of the tug.
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