Again !! USS John S. McCain collides with merchant ship

How else does an extremely high tech fast and maneuverable warship get plunked by a slow pitch softball? Ships that size have the right of way because they just cant stop, turn, or anything else......Either the Navy didn't see them coming.......odd. Or it is total incompetence....possible after 8 years of anti military Gov.

Kevin

GPS has nothing to do with it. Both of these crews should have been paying attention and failed.

Reminds me of some idiot racing to beat a slow moving freight train to a crossing.

Outside the ship, lookouts are typically stationed at the back and near the front on or close to the bridge. Part of the bridge watch team, their job is to constantly scan the horizon with binoculars as a backup to radar in case it misses a small fishing boat or picks up big waves in a heavy sea.

This is where the failure was...
Hard to miss a tanker...
Just like the train crossing somebody miss judged the vector and time...

coaledsweat wrote:GPS has nothing to do with it. Both of these crews should have been paying attention and failed.

Steer the ship as not to avoid obstacles?

That's duty #2343 ... not a top priority

Welcome to the US Navy.

I blame Bush.

Now they are fishing sailors out of the water. I'm sure the sailors parents are happy.

Or it is total incompetence....possible after 8 years of anti military Gov.

The helmsman was having a coming out party and there was a backup at the only gender neutral toilet available. Sailor called the guy an idiot and he was locked in the brig as a racist.