[Rummyfan]

While the investigation is ongoing, it is evident the collision was preventable, the commanding officer exercised poor judgement, and the executive officer exercised poor leadership of the ship’s training program.

Yes that seems obvious.

Ten of your crew dead - some heads need to roll. They are lucky they are not facing Article 15 proceedings.

[USCG SimTech]

After watching the AIS replay over and over, there were other vessels in the immediate vicinity making “cowboy-up” moves (rule 6) that are of questionable international rules integrity. Especially in a very heavily populated traffic separation scheme (rule 10). Sometime an abundance of caution will get you in greater trouble than blending with the flow. Even if the flow is demonstrating poor seamanship. Bad place at the wrong time by happenstance, me thinks. I represent no organization or company in this personal opinion.