[Personal Responsibility]

How do two ships so large collide at sea?

[CondorFlight]

Tankers have collided with US ships, also.

Is this a new type of warfare?

Are the GPS systems of the ships being distorted?

[grobdriver]

How do two ships so large collide at sea?

More to the point is how does a highly maneuverable military vessel allow itself to be hit by a slow, unmaneuverable oil tanker?

Hello bridge watch? Hello Officer of the Deck? Hello radar?

[JimRed]

How do two ships so large collide at sea?

Helmsmen texting while driving?

[Cheesehead in Texas]

“How do two ships so large collide at sea?”

The article says the collision happened in one of the western fjords, not open sea. Some of the Norwegian fjords are quite narrow and there’s not a lot of room for maneuverability. A fully loaded tanker takes about 2 miles to slow to a stop.

[Pearls Before Swine]

How do two ships so large collide at sea?

You could ask our Navy, but the answer is likely classified.

[bkopto]

How do two ships so large collide at sea?

I'm thinking that the warships of the Norwegian Navy have affirmative action plans for women and minorities?

[null and void]

How do two ships so large collide at sea?

Was the crew trained by the US Navy?

[Pollster1]

To be fair, collisions can happen easily unless both ships have alert bridge crews. My ship came closer than I like to remember to an oil tanker that was running very fast, in heavy fog, with no lights. A submarine’s sonar might not hear the engines with all that oil in between, and warships often run under EMCON - without using radio/radar. That’s why we have lookouts and trained professionals.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Slowly at first. Then, all at once.