You guys want a real-world story to show you how insignificant this is?
The Russians had an aircraft carrier undergoing overhaul in port in the Black Sea. We were sent to the Black Sea to check out if she was operational and training in the Black Sea itself. It was not. We left when Yuri Andropov dropped dead and did not want to provoke the Russians by being in their lake.
A few months later, we were back in the Med and here she comes steaming out with a task force to do ops in the Med. We followed her around the Med for a couple of months, often observing flight operations from underneath the approach path for the aircraft. That meant sticking our ship's bow right up the carriers ass at a distance of a few hundred yards. If that carrier twitched, we could easily have collided with the stern of the ship. We did it because it made the aircraft fly right over us when landing. It was probably one of the most stressful things I have ever done in my life and you could only stand the watch for about a half hour at a time as the conning officer because it was so exhausting constantly checking the bearing and range of that behemoth in front of you only a couple of hundred yards away.
