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Back in the radio communications room, Jeff had begun to dose off only moments after sitting down in the calm silence of the radio room. He slumped backwards in his chair with his head tilted all the way back, the headphones slipping off his ears. The green line on the screen in front of him wiggled and a soft noise made its way into his headphones. This did not wake the slumbering man. A few seconds later, the line jumped and a screech bleared into the headphones.

"SOS!" the staticy disembodied voice rang into Jeff's ears

Jeff jerked awake, "SOS? Huh?" He sat up and straightened his headset. The green line continued to make waves across the screen with a faint radio wave. He pressed the button on the mic in front of him and spoke,

"This is the EDF Atlas, did we just recieve a distress call? Over."

There was no reply. Could it have been the french barge vessel? Perhaps they didn't have an English speaker aboard and he didn't know a lick of French.. Except Rosslyn. Of all the times the useless girl was gone, wasn't her break over already?

He ran over to the intercom on the other side of the room and cleared his throat before pressing the button.

"Rosslyn Jones, please report back to the Radio Room immediately! Rosslyn Jones! An outside SOS signal has been recieved!"

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"Merda!" exclaimed Rosslyn stomping her foot and looking up at the intercom then back to Sargeant Major Alexander, "'Scuse my Italian Sargeant Major Alexander, duty calls! But I do have something important to talk to you about. Trust me, it's REALLY important! I'll catch you later!"

She winked at him and bolted out of the kitchen back to the Radio room.

"What is it Jeff?! Someone called? Of all the times for there to be action!" Rosslyn said as soon as she burst into the room.

"I believe it's the French Barge Vessel, le poo..poo..ter.." Jeff stumbled over his pronunciation of the vessel.

"Le Pouteur." Rosslyn corrected him.

"Yeah, whatever. They sent out an SOS. Now do your thing." he ordered pointing to the headset.

Rosslyn took over the mic and headset and began to speak in French to the supposed French Barge Vessel, "Le Pouteur, this is EDF Atlas naval vessel. We have just recieved your distress call. What is your location?"