I was not in the Navy or on merchant ships but I am a procedural guy and like the checklist manifesto sort of thinking so have read up on all this when the first one happened. Even paid some attention to people around Bath where the ships were built when I was up there this summer.
That this could happen twice in one year is beyond stupid for the Pacific Fleet.
I was thinking back to my 19 months in the western Pacific from May 1970 through December 1971 when we had a whole lot more ships and I can’t remember a single collision. The operating tempo in Vietnam meant that anything that could was underway.