I’ve got experience myself piloting commercial motor vessels this size
Three and one half minutes is plenty time to avoid another vessel while underway
I’m not a veteran but it seems like our military always blame service men first before systems or technology
Was there no way to simply override this vexed steering system and revert to manual
If not how to steer if a power loss to the bridge?
A genuine pilot wheel could averted this
She’s a twin shaft.....that makes another way to steer clear of danger
I will say as someone who been in the port of Singapore there should have been a serious officer or high ranking enlisted man on that bridge
Another question is if they were but 20 miles from docking Singapore when the hell does the bar or port pilot board?
I’ve been on a ship collision on a small freighter in Miragoane Haiti
You do reach a. Point where it’s impossible to avoid contact
My captain was attempting a beam to beam anchorage to lighter from us to the ship at the old pre slave revolt dock
He came in too hard..from 100 yards out there was nowhere to go but to hit gunnel to gunnel enough to scrape paint and dent the railing in the contact spot
Another time on the Calcaseiu river in St Charles a chem carrier hit us barely...that was pilot error but trust me they never ever own it
River pilot association are extortion rackets
In the nuclear power world we have a term for this sort of problem: Human Factors.
It should be immediately obvious what each work station controls. They should look markedly different.
If both operators need to know the status of the other operator’s system, the components that the operator is not in control of should be shaded out so that the operator knows that he is not in control of those components.
A few small words in a box are not sufficient in a stressful situation to clue you in that you are not in control when everything else on the screen looks exactly the same.