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From: GORDON MEYER <72307.1502@compuserve.com>
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Subject: Aquatic Area Codes
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Date: 10 Feb 90 02:23:41 GMT
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A phreaker phriend of mine recently told me about the following area codes:

   871 - Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediter. Sea.
   872 - Pacific Ocean
   873 - Indian Ocean

Has anyone heard of these before or was he pulling my leg?  He said
they were used, for example, to reach oil rigs and so on.


GRM
72307.1502@Compuserve.com /  GEnie & Delphi: GRMEYER


[Moderator's Note: Those are the 'country codes' for ships on the high
seas. They are linked into radio circuits, and used to reach ships in
transit from one place to another.   PT]