baa99 Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 The Japanese coast guard is investigating the collision between the Navy destroyer USS Fitzgerald and a container ship off the coast of Japan on Saturday that killed seven U.S. sailors and injured several more. http://abcnews.go.com/US/navy-destroyers-deadly-collision-container-ship-japan/story?id=48131357 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bust Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 Looks like someone doesn't know shipping lane protocol. Ship was from the Philippines. All ships these days have every move tracked and recorded. Should be pretty easy to work out who was at fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pasathai1 Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 Pi ship made a u turn, want to bet the investigation looks into terr. groups in the pi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
passingthru69 Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 Plus I was reading it was an hour before the call was made about the collision. Navg boat's radio call center destroyed and they had to scramble to get their satellite mobiles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baa99 Posted June 20, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 Pi ship made a u turn, want to bet the investigation looks into terr. groups in the pi? The destroyer's capt. career is at a dead end now. The U turn was after the collision. The larger ship, ie the container ship, has the right of way. A similar collision happened in the Strait of Hormuz in 2012. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/06/19/when-navy-ships-collide-there-is-virtually-always-human-error-involved/?utm_term=.d193b73e76e4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
My Penis is hungry Posted June 21, 2017 Report Share Posted June 21, 2017 Plus I was reading it was an hour before the call was made about the collision. Navg boat's radio call center destroyed and they had to scramble to get their satellite mobiles They'd have usable SatComs for communications, no need to Sat Mobiles, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted June 21, 2017 Report Share Posted June 21, 2017 Reminds me of the old Joke US Ship: Please divert your course 0.5 degrees to the south to avoid a collision. CND reply: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision. US Ship: This is the Captain of a US Navy Ship. I say again, divert your course. CND reply: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course! US Ship: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS CORAL SEA*, WE ARE A LARGE WARSHIP OF THE US NAVY. DIVERT YOUR COURSE NOW!! CND reply: This is a lighthouse. Your call. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bust Posted June 21, 2017 Report Share Posted June 21, 2017 Still a favorite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted June 22, 2017 Report Share Posted June 22, 2017 An old "urban legend": "The Virginian-Pilot, the daily newspaper in Norfolk, Virginia, a city with a large naval presence, investigated the story after it had begun circulating extensively on and off the Internet in 1995. A spokesman for the Atlantic Fleet called it "a totally bogus story". Boorda's office said it had not released any such transcript on the date in question. And not only was the story an old one, the ships commonly named in it were mostly either out of service by 1995 (the Coral Sea, in fact, had been scrapped two years before)[1] or not aircraft carriers. "Other sources the paper consulted found more flaws with the story. A spokesman for the Coast Guard, which operates all American lighthouses, said that they had all long since been automated, so there would have been no one to talk to a ship from one, if the incident had taken place in U.S. waters. He speculated that it had been circulated by members of the Coast Guard to make fun of the Navy." Wackypoodle ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted August 21, 2017 Report Share Posted August 21, 2017 And againilly... Guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collides with merchant vessel Alnic MC - Search and rescue efforts are under way after a US warship collided with a merchant vessel in southeast Asia. The USS John S McCain was involved in a collision with the Alnic MC east of Singapore and the Strait of Malacca, the US 7th Fleet said in a statement. The accident happened at 6.24am local time as the guided-missile destroyer was heading to Singapore for a routine visit. Local authorities were coordinating with the US Navy to conduct search and rescue efforts after the warship suffered damage the port side aft, the 7th Fleet said. more at http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11908132 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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