| Two collisions between Navy destroyers and commercial vessels in the Western Pacific earlier this year were “avoidable” and the result of a string of crew and basic navigational errors, the Navy’s top officer said in a report to be made public on Wednesday. |
| Seven sailors were killed in June when the destroyer Fitzgerald collided with a container ship near Japan. The collision in August of the John S. McCain — another destroyer, named after Senator McCain’s father and grandfather — and an oil tanker in Southeast Asia left 10 sailors dead. |
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4 comments:
When I was in the Navy one of our favorite sayings was, "A collision at sea can ruin your entire day."
So there must not be any type of automatic pilot on a ship.Something that would override human judgement when human judgement was flawed.Automobiles have safety features that help to idiot proof us from accidents,why not ships?A 24 hour a day computer scan could certainly advise when a collision course with another ship was imminent.Why depend fully on human judgement when time and time again we've proven ourselves susceptible to error?
Too busy teaching Sailors about Transgenders and not enough about basic navigation. 10:01 Sailors should know how to navigate without computers
Don't believe it . Ships were hacked and Navy doesn't want you to know.
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