So they were below decks at the incident. Dear God.
What was the freighter doing? Trying to do doughnuts in the ocean?
Most are of the theory the freighter had only a skeleton crew and was on Auto Pilot. Given it is a foreign civilian vessel not much will happen to the Captain or who was on Watch.
On the other hand they will crucify the Captain and other officers of the USS Fitz. At 2:30 AM the Captain was asleep or at least in his quarters which was also smashed in.
That area was a Parking Lot of commercial and naval ships even when hubby was there in the 80’s, before his last ship board assignment on the USS Enchon.