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USS Fitzgerald Collision Update (Sailors found, bad news)
U.S. 7th Fleet Public Affairs ^ | 6/17/2017 | U.S. 7th Fleet Public Affairs

Posted on 06/17/2017 7:20:21 PM PDT by proust

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To: StAnDeliver

So recent systems work and repairs. That’s another plausible thread in this.


241 posted on 06/18/2017 6:30:06 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Doofer

First that sentence is mangled.

Second, what’s the procedure after alarms and evacuation?


242 posted on 06/18/2017 6:32:59 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Doofer

First that referenced sentence is mangled.

Second, what’s the procedure after alarms and evacuation?


243 posted on 06/18/2017 6:33:38 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: GailA

My understanding is that this is a very busy shipping channel - not the middle of the ocean.

So *relatively* close passes are a norm - at 3-4 miles the courses don’t actually intercept within a half-mile...then something changes late in the track.


244 posted on 06/18/2017 6:39:46 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I don’t think the Navy does that stunt any more. Not after a Navy sub hit a Japanese vessel full of students off Hawaii a decade or so ago.


245 posted on 06/18/2017 7:28:40 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: BradyLS

Happened in February 2001, nine miles off Oahu. The submarine _Greenfield_ struck and sank a fishery training vessel full of high school students after performing an emergency surfacing maneuver for VIPs aboard the sub.


246 posted on 06/18/2017 7:41:11 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: BradyLS

...If the Navy still performs the maneuver for training purposes, I would hope it’s strictly for training and not to impress visitors!


247 posted on 06/18/2017 7:47:05 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Fungi
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The Fitz was deliberately hit.

The other vessel tried to hit them, and missed, but went back for another try.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N1-_9SGQTI

248 posted on 06/18/2017 7:54:27 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Seruzawa

Great book...I read that book as well.

A little off subject, but with the state of art of CGI, I wish someone would make a movie about that entire battle. There is so much in it, failure, desperation, triumph, and even a Charge of The Light Brigade by US destroyers in a virtual suicide mission, accompanied by an inadvertent reference to the same poem in communication to Halsey (as you know from reading it!)

I wish it could be made without some POS liberal director managing to put his own spin on it.


249 posted on 06/18/2017 8:01:22 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals are in a state of constant cognitive dissonance, which explains their mental instability.)
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To: Gideon7

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Bullshit!

You can see the first pass, which missed, and the return, strike, reverse, and run for cover.


250 posted on 06/18/2017 8:05:03 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Bob; central_va
The picture in 229 was a typical hatch with scuttle access. They used another type {no center scuttle hatch} on places like storerooms. Most storerooms were not considered quarters, work centers, or living space, and usually not manned. Those hatches had to be opened from the top with a dogging wrench.

The picture in 230? I think but it's been 38 years that that type of hatch was used in places like the shaft alleys. Again another space not normally manned but checked every two hours or so by a Rover Watch. IIRC that specific type can be opened either side as the dog handles are on a shaft that goes all the wall through the bulkhead. I could be wrong but that is the only place I remember seeing that type of hatch and it was down on the 6th deck and maybe a few machinery rooms elsewhere. Then there was the typical passageway hatches that had a handle which operated all dogs at the same time.

251 posted on 06/18/2017 8:43:37 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: doorgunner69
Trying to prove something here?

I Just have a question. Why did the container ship backtrack and target the Navy vessel ?


252 posted on 06/18/2017 10:28:01 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2
Show that you have access to AIS track info and whatever it is you are trying to assert!

Some goofy graphic from wherever means squat other than to show odd thinking.

No track of the Fitzgerald has been released, so give it up, you have been busted.

If you have legitimate track info, share where you got it from.

253 posted on 06/18/2017 11:10:17 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: UCANSEE2

They didn’t. If you look at the AIS track with the speeds, you’ll see that that, at the first turn, ACX Crystal ABRUPTLY changed course and lost 6.1 knots in less than three minutes and 4,000 feet. Loaded container ships simply can’t shed speed that fast unless they’ve hit something. THE collision occurred BEFORE the U-turns, not after.

The time the Navy is reporting is wrong, and the Japanese Coast Guard is right—the collision occurred at 16:30 UTC (1:30am local), not 17:30. Most likely, Fitz tried to “beat the train,” didn’t succeed, and ACX Crystal’s autopilot began to resume course and speed. There’s a very good possibility that ACX Crystal’s bridge watch was in bed (explaining the sluggish response), but I don’t buy a deliberate attack at all. If it had been a deliberate attack at ~17:30 UTC, that means that ACX Crystal decided to hang around for another thirty minutes afterwards. If it was an intentional collision at 16:30 UTC, ACX Crystal’s track indicates that they turned around to render assistance and remain in the area for three hours. THAT makes sense.


254 posted on 06/19/2017 12:50:52 AM PDT by happytpr
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To: All

Radio just said 3 injured sailors, IIRC including the captain, were airlifted to hospital.


255 posted on 06/19/2017 1:12:53 AM PDT by PraiseTheLord
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To: doorgunner69
Question: It is obvious the bow of the container ship plowed into the side of the Navy ship. Why did the media stories state that the Navy Ship RAMMED the container ship ?

From all appearances, either the Navy ship was not moving or was attempting to turn away from the container ship. Why would this be ?

256 posted on 06/19/2017 6:10:08 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: BradyLS

Well, I was there in 2010 for a visit...and they did it again! ;)

Navy v. Tourists? LOL!


257 posted on 06/19/2017 7:13:55 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: UCANSEE2

Same as with the Porter. They probably thought they could pass in front until the last moment, then tried to turn away. If ACX Crystal’s bridge was negligently unattended, it would have done nothing to avoid the collision. Fitzgerald may have been able to turn far enough to make it a glancing blow that only contacted the container ship’s port bow.

Also, a correction to my last post: If it had been a deliberate attack at 17:30 UTC, that means they had remained in the area for an hour and a half afterwards, not just a half hour.


258 posted on 06/19/2017 7:49:24 AM PDT by happytpr
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To: proust

Thanks. Merchant ships do not make manuevers like this because of the waste of fuel and time, unless something was wrong with the ship, there was a mutiny or they lost control of the ship.

The NK's have some incredible computer hackers, and this ship stopped in SK.

259 posted on 06/19/2017 8:56:26 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (We are Millwall and on Flight 93 for our country! Lets Roll! For Americans and President Trump!)
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To: happytpr
There is some information we are not getting that would explain all this. That is why I am taking the devil's advocate position. When the media first started passing this story on, it said the Fitzgerald RAMMED the ACX Crystal.

Since it is obvious that is not what happened, why would they state that in the articles ?

260 posted on 06/19/2017 5:03:46 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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