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2017-06-17 Government

Update and fotos: US Navy Destroyer 'collision ' with container ship

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-06-17 10:50|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Brit article shows the path of the container ship;
looks like the destroyer was targeted.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4612334/USS-Fitzgerald-involved-collision-merchant-vessel.html

Posted by Mercutio 2017-06-17 11:21|| 2017-06-17 11:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Busy shipping lane off the coast of Shimoda, Japan and neither ship had surface radar active? Strange.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2017-06-17 12:36|| 2017-06-17 12:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Looks to my untrained eye that the container ship aimed for the destroyer - even to the point of making a couple of u-turns.
Or am I missing something?

Posted by CrazyFool 2017-06-17 12:51|| 2017-06-17 12:51|| Front Page Top

#4 WTF? Just cruisin' down the channel, fat dumb and happy. The world should be a war zone when you skipper a destroyer.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2017-06-17 15:39|| 2017-06-17 15:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Or am I missing something?

High likelihood the container ship was on Iron Mike (auto-navigation).

Posted by Pappy 2017-06-17 17:44|| 2017-06-17 17:44|| Front Page Top

#6 the container ship was on Iron Mike (auto-navigation).

Which is why, though I have never enjoyed driving, I have no intention of giving up control of my car to an AI.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-06-17 17:49|| 2017-06-17 17:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Although we won't know a lot more until more of the investigation is done, according to the rules of the road, the ship on the left (the Fitzgerald) is responsible for keeping clear of the other ship. I'm not sure what would happen if the container ship suddenly decided to ram.
According to Wikipedia, the Fitzgerald has two surface search radars so they should have seen the other ship coming.
When I was on active duty 45 years ago, there was always a lot of tension the bridge when you were in a shipping lane with lots of traffic - especially at night.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2017-06-17 18:57|| 2017-06-17 18:57|| Front Page Top

#8 The world should be a war zone when you skipper a destroyer.

I'd suggest "past-tense" for many of those in charge

Posted by Frank G 2017-06-17 20:41|| 2017-06-17 20:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Negligence on both bridges, and clearly a command climate that harbored poor junior leadership. Early morning makes one wonder who might have been in eyeball defilade.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2017-06-17 20:54|| 2017-06-17 20:54|| Front Page Top

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