Posted on 08/20/2017 6:35:30 PM PDT by Enchante
My mistake, Singapore time is one hour earlier than JST.
Even down here at the tail end of winter, sunrise is after 6AM.
BTW, noob --I have a whole day's FR seniority on you... '-)
Actually, you can see the navigation lights of a large tanker easily at 10 nms with ye ol Mk1 Mod 0 eyeball.
TANKER: Bulbous bow; lightly loaded; T-Bone; low speed. (Tanker's vertical bow barely dented McCain...)
Thanks for the correction!
You don’t cross a $1B class warship across the bow of a merchant hoping he will obey the rules of the road, any more than you protect yourself from an oncoming truck by standing in a crossing zone counting on traffic laws to force him to stop. Even if you are in the right you are in the wrong.
no more yes men....no more time spent on homos diversity, tranny diversity, etc....
So, now, the correct collision time (relative to Singapore sunrise) is...?
https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/singapore/singapore.
According to this web site sunrise at Singapore is 07:03
At that point the law of gross tonnage takes over. The outcome is usually not satisfactory for the small boys.
The Navy needs to replace all those “Diversity” classes, LBGT sessions, Transgender sessions, How not to use OFFENSIVE speech seminars, etc, etc. with some, “How not to run into things at night” classes.
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BTW, does anyone know if the McCain could have been dead in the water at the time of collision?
(I don't see much shearing action in the damage -- precisely the opposite of the Fitzgerald...).
No - not just sloppiness.
It’s Obama-induced incompetance.
Yeah, that’s the christening of the ship in question.
Yes, the same ship — website below:
http://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/ddg56/Pages/default.aspx#.WZptZSiGNRY
[At that point the law of gross tonnage takes over.]
Don’t worry, Boss; he’ll get outta the way.
I'm not sure of this. You had a navigation officer and and NCO and four or five enlisted running a plot from dead reckoning, radar, periscope bearings, GPS (bow and stern) and lookouts, all updating the plot on the charting table.You were in charge of it all, of course, but you were not alone, lol.
This is done on all warships, not just the nukes. Which makes the two accidents we have had lately all the more mysterious. How did this happen, I see no way other than gross dereliction.
How does a huge slow moving tanker sneak up on a state of the art warship?
Whoever is Chief of Naval Operations needs to resign along with the Commander of the 7th Fleet.
BookMark
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