[AndyJackson]

You don’t cross a $1B class warship across the bow of a merchant hoping he will obey the rules of the road, any more than you protect yourself from an oncoming truck by standing in a crossing zone counting on traffic laws to force him to stop. Even if you are in the right you are in the wrong.

[Bull Snipe]

At that point the law of gross tonnage takes over. The outcome is usually not satisfactory for the small boys.

[TXnMA]

Yep. Any other action is as stupid as strolling dasually across a crosswalk on a busy street -- and expecting protection because pedestrians in crosswalks have the right-of-way. You're right -- DEAD right...

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BTW, does anyone know if the McCain could have been dead in the water at the time of collision?

(I don't see much shearing action in the damage -- precisely the opposite of the Fitzgerald...).