Crikey, if true, why would it have performed those maneuvers?
....has this been noted in the media?
ACX Crystal AIS track (YouTube)
The video includes a running chronometer at the bottom.
What I found interesting is that according to the initial AP news report the ACX Crystal did not radio in the collision until 16:20, by which time (according to the chronometer) it had already left the scene.
Why would a ship do that?
Was somebody trying to block its course?
Can someone familiar with container ships explain the two weird u-turns the container ship is reported to have made?
I know next to nothing about container ships - but the little I know suggests that they do not usually maneuver like this.
Could it be a deliberate effort to take out one of our destroyers? Inquiring minds are definitely curious about this, and no longer trusts the MSM to report the truth.
I assumed the first 90* change of course was where the collision occurred.
Then the almost 180* change was to assist rescue.
When other shipping arrived Crystal resumed track to Tokyo.
Lots of speculation.
I haven’t seen Fitzgerald’s course.
Had she lost power?
ETC
Port ship gives way...
Did Crystal slow before impact? Or is damage sustained by Fitzgerald consistent with cruising knottage?
Looks like the Cargo ship went out of its way to hit the Fitzgerald
Not sure how the Fitz could have anticipated this or had time to react and get out of the way at 2:30 in the morning
Is the course corrections before or after collision. I have seen several depictions of this track but no clarity about just when the collision occurred.
WTH were they doing?
http://i66.tinypic.com/kb4xzm.jpg
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Thanks. Merchant ships do not make manuevers like this because of the waste of fuel and time, unless something was wrong with the ship, there was a mutiny or they lost control of the ship.
The NK's have some incredible computer hackers, and this ship stopped in SK.
