[Vendome]

This story about two ships colliding is NOT BELIEVABLE.

Their radar would have been going off the rails alerting them to a collision.

Was John Smith the captain of both ships?

[Timpanagos1]

“Was John Smith the captain of both ships?”

Not John Smith, but rather Johnnie Walker.

[thorvaldr]

“This story about two ships colliding is NOT BELIEVABLE.”

For this to work at all, the destroyer would have to be training under some sort of a stealth no emissions protocol and the container ship would have had to have some malfunction causing their radar etc. to be offline. If the destoyer is running passive in the dark and the container ship is making erratic maneuvers AND not emitting anything, maybe. Otherwise, yeah this is pretty weird.

[nickcarraway]

Captain Hazelwood.

[Carl Vehse]

In addition to radar the USS Fitzgerald, in a heavily traveled shipping lane, should also have independently detected the freighter via sonar (one of the sailors killed was a sonar technician) and personnel on watch using IR binoculars during nighttime. There's a lot of questions, and probably some people who don't want those questions answered.

[Kaslin]

First of all it was reported that the area was very crowded with ships and that the ACX Crystal, which was 3 times the size of the Fitzgerald made a sudden U-Turn, so why should it not be possible?