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Us Destroyer Collides With Cargo Ship


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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.

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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

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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.

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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 ...

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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

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