ruh rohhhh - there goes another captains career.
I’m not so sure, if a harbor pilot was guiding the ship.
Not likely to cost the Capt. Harbor pilot controls the ship in the harbor.
Not if there was a pilot onboard.
Not necessarily. If the charts were properly updated and the pilot directed the vessel onto said uncharted hazard, then the skipper is probably gonna be okay. The board of inquiry will hammer the old man if there were any shortcuts, mistakes or gundecking of chart updates.
Silt in a poorly maintained, marked and charted harbor, without accurate information in a coastal/harbor/pilot guide? Silt happens. There will be an inquiry, but if the capt and crew were following standard procedures, especially with a pilot on board, the report will exonerate the crew.
Inasmusch as it is a tin can, the Captain could have a problem.
One story I heard about but never knew if it was true was that some CO got his ship stuck on a reef and waited a day or two hoping the tide would lift him off. During that time apparently there was little or no communications with higher authority. Needless to say the tide didn't come but a replacement CO did. Of course, that depends if the story is true.
No, he was not at the helm, nor was any Navy officer. The helmsman was following the orders of the harbor pilot at the time.
Not likely. But the Pilot {required} likely has a lot of explaining to do. BTW I think Chester Nimitz grounded a ship about mid career. Not always an unforgivable act but depends a lot on the circumstances.
with the pilot on board??
I doubt it, looks like the pilot is going to face charges, so will the port for advertising they had a lower seabed than it actually was
Captain can’t be faulted IMHO. Harbor pilot on board, and they were in a known turning basin (per article) IN PORT. It’s not like he didn’t read a chart and ran aground on a known shoal or something.