It was nighttime and they were some distance from the coast, when their engine failed.
The two men began to worry when they realised that they had no flares onboard. They had deliberately set sail without their mobiles. It was to be a ‘complete getaway’ for the afternoon. A complete disconnection from the world at large. No outside intrusions or interruptions, just a few hours of peace and quiet. They had been planning the afternoon for several weeks. The only thing they did have was a torch, that luckily had been left behind on a previous occasion. This would be the only way they could attract some attention to their plight. It was only a small torch, but they thought it would be bright enough to send some kind of signal.
The older man asked the other if he knew morse code.
“Not really,” said the other. “Why, don’t you?”
The older man shook his head. “Never had any need for it, I suppose.”
The younger man remembered something from his student days. “When I was studying Chronology, I do recall some interesting statistics about morse, but it wouldn’t help.”
“Really? What was that.”
“I’m afraid it wouldn’t help.”
“Well, tell me anyway.”
“OK. As I said, I was studying Chronology… that’s the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time. Anyway, this interesting stuff came up about the units of time spacing when using morse code. There are five basic points regarding this. The length of a dot is one unit, while a dash is three. The space between parts of the same letter is one unit, between letters it’s three and between words it’s seven units.”
The older man just shook his head.
The younger man shrugged and said, “I did say it wouldn’t help.”
Getting frustrated, the older man said, “Look, you must remember some of it, just give it a go. We don’t want to be stuck out here all night.”
The other picked up the torch and sat thinking for a few moments, before sending out a sequence of flashes
Meanwhile, two late night beach anglers became aware of the flashes. One said to the other, “See that? Do you think they’re in trouble?”
“No. they’re probably just signalling to a friend on land somewhere.”
“Who are they talking to?”
“Dunno… You don’t know anyone called Oso, do you?”
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