So the question is, with all this navigating redundancy - human and electronic - built in, why have there been two collisions and one grounding in the last 6 months all in the same area of the Pacific?
I don't know. Something does not make sense here is what I am saying. These are Aegis class ships that can track an “incoming bumble bee” from over the horizon. I find it hard to believe that the nav systems and processes failed so frequently in waters that are sailed every day.
Back in 1979 I worked as a Liberty Launch Engineman on a Med Sea Cruise. We anchored about a mile and a half out off Venice, Italy one morning and began running boats from ship to shore for Liberty Call. After Dusk Navy Regs required a Commissioned Officer be on board the boat if we were underway going to or from the ship to shore.
A Squadron Officer walked on board the boat with his map and his compass and proceed to set our course which was almost 90 degrees different than that of what we had gone all day. We were well experienced at night runs and in during our trips in and out had found landmarks, marker lights on buoys, etc which we used. He insisted he was right so off we went and in about 15 minutes I heard the screw come out of the water. We were in about 2 feet of water. I told the Coxun to stop the boat and put in in reverse at just above idle and we backed out. The Officer had no more orders for us that evening LOL.
BTW in a fog bank one night we were running a 50' boat back to ship and hit a fog bank right outside the sea wall. All of the sudden we saw massive lights and saw people inside the staterooms from a cruise liner that barely missed us. The ships Sonar Techs got us back to the ship finally but it took time for them to determine who was who.
On three ships and all of a sudden? I am betting this was cyber hacking terrorism.
Anyone have any idea how many someones on each of these two vessels would have to screw up for these collisions to occur?
His next in command will go to. 2 ships collide under same commander’s watch, heads roll. To bad they can’t get his pension too.
Yeah, those tankers are kinda’ hard to see.
Two ships.
Two incidents.
It hints rather strongly at something very wrong with operations and training.
How many redundant systems for steering? It’s just nuts to think a Navy vessel wouldn’t have backups for such a vulnerable system as steering. So that leaves us with two questions.. who is sinking Destroyers? And why is everyone covering it up?
Utter failures in training.. wouldn’t a fleet commander start immediately ramping up combat training after the Fitzgerald?
Bad at nav? Well yes. Our entire computer system went down company wide. We rolled out the paper trail o matic of old and got back to work.
Some people had never worked without a computer. They were just helpless. Think about it.. these kids are young and have no idea how to nav without technology.
Not true. MANY people wore not doing their job.