Was there an orgy going on?
Was EVERYONE asleep?
Did ALL the equipment go down at once?
Did the container ship become very stealthy and ram them?
Was everyone with watch that night on their first day on the job?
What if your name is John Fitzgerald Kerry(who served in Viet Nam)?
my suspicions are that the OOD, JOOD and CICWO actions or inactions are responsible for the collision. Since there is no word out of their part in the collision, that means that the investigating board is still looking into their performance on that night.
For something like this to happen, there’d have to been a cascade of screw ups committed by multiple people.
Somebody dropped their sextant in the shower.