The question of the day.
"How does a state-of-the-art Navy destroyer -- equipped with multiple radar systems and communications gear with a full bridge watch -- not see, detect and evade a 30,000-ton slow-moving (10 knots) behemoth?"
"Oil tankers are huge, and it takes miles for them to change course ... When you're going into a congested channel, you're supposed to be very alert, track ships around you to a very meticulous degree." Carl Schuster, a former director of operations at the US Pacific Command's Joint Intelligence Center
This is the 4th collision in the 7th Fleet in 8 months. Two Tico's and two AB's. A culture of arrogance, poor risk management, poor judgment, slipping training standards and seamanship are at the heart of this.
"How does a state-of-the-art Navy destroyer -- equipped with multiple radar systems and communications gear with a full bridge watch -- not see, detect and evade a 30,000-ton slow-moving (10 knots) behemoth?"
"Oil tankers are huge, and it takes miles for them to change course ... When you're going into a congested channel, you're supposed to be very alert, track ships around you to a very meticulous degree." Carl Schuster, a former director of operations at the US Pacific Command's Joint Intelligence Center
This is the 4th collision in the 7th Fleet in 8 months. Two Tico's and two AB's. A culture of arrogance, poor risk management, poor judgment, slipping training standards and seamanship are at the heart of this.
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