“For this to work at all, the destroyer would have to be training under some sort of a stealth no emissions protocol and the container ship would have had to have some malfunction causing their radar etc. to be offline. If the destoyer is running passive in the dark and the container ship is making erratic maneuvers AND not emitting anything, maybe. Otherwise, yeah this is pretty weird.”
That tangled reasoning might have led to the collision, but then for the freighter to leave the scene after ?
Looking at the track of the freighter, something stinks. Looks like it doubled back to hit the cruiser then there’s another series of circles later which are unexplained before continuing on to port.
“That tangled reasoning might have led to the collision, but then for the freighter to leave the scene after ?
Looking at the track of the freighter, something stinks. Looks like it doubled back to hit the cruiser then there’s another series of circles later which are unexplained before continuing on to port.”
We don’t know where that track came from, or where during that track the ships collided, or if the plots are even accurate.
There is nothing in the plot in and of itself that looks suspicious. Ships often zig-zag or make u-turns for time purposes. The port may not be ready for them, a harbor pilot may not be available, etc.
“That tangled reasoning might have led to the collision, but then for the freighter to leave the scene after ?”
Ok, how’s this for tangled reasoning. What if the destroyer was shadowing the container ship (suspected them of carrying bad stuff), got too close and the container ship managed some sort of a “crazy Ivan” style maneuver and hit them?
Or maybe whatever string of miscommunication and technical difficulties caused the ship to hit and the weird things the container ship did after are due to them wanting to dispose of things they didn’t want the Japanese coast guard to see.