I remember hearing something slightly different than that but I'm not sure 
either of its veracity. That was that if you were on an inland waterway like 
a lake or a river, you were marine mobile. Maritime mobile applied when you 
were on the ocean or maybe it was beyond the 15 mile domestic water limit. 
and, again, I can't vouch for any of that. Just throwing it out there for 
conversation's sake. Perhaps someone here knows the real story. 73. Lou 
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: Operating maritime mobile


> Don't quote me on this but I heard from some place years ago that unless 
> you
> are on an ocean, you are just mobile and not maritime mobile compared to
> being on a lake or river for example.  The same is true, I believe, with
> aeronautical mobile.  That means you are flying over an ocean.  Otherwise,
> flying over land, you are just air mobile or mobile period.  I don't know
> this for certain but I think the great lakes are calculated in miles 
> instead
> of nauts because they technically are not oceans.  I'd be curious if any 
> of
> this old memory is true or not.  I know rivers are measured and calculated
> in miles instead of nauts but as soon as they empty into the oceans, it
> changes to nauts instead of miles.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX