Typically, on a daily basis....things like this don’t occur. So when they do...there is a necessity to fly in a team which look at all data, interview people as to what they were doing, and establish a minute-by-minute report. It’ll be at least ten days before you start to hear what transpired.
Somewhere on that bridge...someone who was supposed to be paying attention to various conditions, simply screwed up or some massive system failure occurred. It’s going to be hard to blame the captain because he was in his bunk and one of the folks actually injured. He may end taking the fall for this for incompetent people running the ship, or for a system failure which was already known.
Let the Japanese Coast Guard and the USN do their jobs
Looking at the marine track data and the damage pictures,
Theres at least a plausible case that the Cargo Ship pulled an erratic course change and ran down the Navy Ship by overtaking her and steering into her starboard side
No one has heard peep from the cargo ship owners and crew
This scenario still,leaves the USN culpable for not maintaining situational awareness, not maintaining adequate watch and not taking evasive actions to avoid the collision
Can modern radar see through thick fog, or does it just bounce back?
In the clear I don’t see how you could fail to see a target the size of a navy ship much less a container ship.
No, they don’t.
I read report this morning that the time of collision has been changed to 1:30am vs the 2:30am as originally reported.
The collision happened at around 1:30 a.m. but it was not until 2:25 a.m. that the container ship informed the Japanese coastguard of the accident, said coastguard spokesman Takeshi Aikawa told Reuters.
What obstruction have you noted?