It was incompetent deck officers. Period. The social engineering has gotten that bad.
In 2003, SWOSDOC was shuttered, largely for financial reasons,,,,,,,,
officers went directly from commissioning sources to their ships with only a packet of computer disks........
Now it was incumbent on the ship’s CO to replace a year’s worth of intensive dawn-to-dusk training, in addition to his or her other considerable responsibilities
Bringing back the SWOSDOC would be a good start
Then they need to be ordered TO COLLIDE with cargo ships, that will ensure this never happens again.
Seems to me this is like the OJ jury, we never get to see just what kind of imbeciles are making decisions.
How many men, women, transgenders, homosexuals, minorities, functional retards etc were on the bridge of our navy ships, especially in these collisions that KILLED 17 sailors?