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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
I was in the next room when it came on the TV so I'm not sure what station, but the reporter had I think an English accent. Anyway, she managed to report that Canada was deploying such and such vessel with its specialized unmanned underwater research vehicle "Boaty McBoatface" in all seriousness. Its a shame she had to tag it with "a vehicle named by public voting" instead of just leaving it up to Europe to figure out.
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I think it's actually a British thing, if this is the same vessel. Probably being deployed from a Canadian ship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface
Funny either way. I imagine they never thought they would have to talk about it in a serious news story one day.