It is somewhat dated, but the concepts are largely the same, since they have been written in blood over the years.
It did. One thing I hate about watching the reconstruction is that nobody on that destroyer knew their life was going to change (or end) until the last few seconds, when all they could do was...watch.
As I said before on this, nobody ever walks out the front door of their house and says “Well, I’m gonna get T-boned by a semi today, this is the last time I’ll walk out this door.”
It’s always a surprise, especially when you ignore the clues, like the Far Side cartoon where the airline pilots see a mountain goat as they are flying, and one of them says “Hey...what’s a mountain goat doing up here in the clouds?”
In the picture of the ships you provided, there’s a third ship in the Evans collision scene. I suspect that we’ll find there was more than just the tanker and the destroyer in the area at the time and that panic quickly set in and inexperience took its toll.
The reason I say this is that I listened to an audio recording of a previous destroyer collision and the collision was caused when, after turning to avoid a tanker (?) the destroyer ended up approaching a third ship. In correcting to avoid the other ship, bad judgment put the destroyer back in the path of the first one it had already avoided.
Maybe someone can find the audio. It was about 4 minutes long and very interesting. I can’t locate it.