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* In ''[[Space Camp]]'', one of the campers in the accidentally-launched shuttle realizes that she can use a telemetry switch to send Morse code in place of the nonfunctional radio. The control room operators need the help of the ever-annoying robot Jinx to notice that one of their console lights is rapidly blinking in an irregular pattern...

* In ''[[Executive Decision]]'', the trope is played with when Kurt Russel's character uses the boarded plane's tracking lights for Morse code, knowing the only reason this can work is that the US fighter planes following the plane are Navy, the only US armed service that still trained its pilots in Morse code.

* In ''[[Under Siege]]'', Seagal's character is able to rescue a group of survivors who just happened to be broadcasting Morse code as he was nearby. Somewhat justified in that he was previously a Navy SEAL

* In ''[[Under Siege]]'', Seagal's character is able to rescue a group of survivors who just happened to be broadcasting Morse code as he was nearby. Somewhat justified in that he was previously a Navy SEAL.

{{quote|'''Soldier:''' I take back every rust-pickin', squid-hatin' thing I've ever said about swabbies!}}.

** The people he was rescuing were also sailors, and anybody who's been to boot camp can at least tap out a simple "SOS" even if they don't know anything else about Morse.

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* In one of [[Patrick Moore]]'s ''[[Scott Saunders]]'' novels, the captured astronauts time an escape attempt by blinking morse to each other. {{spoiler|It fails. Their captors blindfold them.}}

* [[Andre Norton]]'s ''[[Postmarked The Stars]]'' has a settlement cut off by radio jamming call for aid by generating a counter-pulse in a simple on-off code. When the settler asked what code to use, he was told to use something simple...

* [[E. E. "Doc" Smith]]'s ''[[Skylark]]'' series has a memorable scene where the opening part of a Morse conversation is carried out by firing a machine-gun at a spaceship's armoured hull. Needless to say all the male characters in the vicinity are completely familiar with the code, but the author at least made an attempt to show how slowly the message was sent.

* [[E. E. "Doc" Smith]]'s ''[[Skylark Series|Skylark]]'' series has a memorable scene where the opening part of a Morse conversation is carried out by firing a machine-gun at a spaceship's armoured hull. Needless to say all the male characters in the vicinity are completely familiar with the code, but the author at least made an attempt to show how slowly the message was sent.

** All the male characters in the vicinity (all three of them) are familiar with Morse because they are experienced test pilots.

* In ''[[Literature/Cheaper By The Dozen|Cheaper By The Dozen]]'', the father decides his children should learn Morse code and paints messages in it on the walls. Most of them translate to [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]s (one of which, "Two maggots were fighting in dead Ernest," his wife makes him paint out because it's not appropriate for the dining room, in code or otherwise). One of the kids remarks on how they won't be satisfied now until they've figured them all out, even though they know the most they're going to get out of it is bad jokes.

* In the ''[[Swallows and Amazons]]'' book ''Winter Holiday'', Dick and Dorothea send signals to the main characters out of curiosity. Not knowing Morse themselves, they're unaware that they're sending out a distress signal. (They do learn Morse later on in the story.)