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U.S. Navy destroyer, Philippines merchant vessel collide off Japan


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1 hour ago, EVENKEEL said:

I thought accident happened in the Singapore Strait, east of the Malacca Strait. 

 

Unless you've had the Conn there at night with heavy rain, <deleted>ty visibility, your radar lit up like a Christmas tree with contacts that are anchored, fishing and in the middle of all that <deleted> you and your lookout misses this one guy crossing to port, you call out hard right, the Chief Mate who's supposed to be helping me missed seeing that ship as well. He was a waste of air he was. It's these near misses that makes you realize you can never get too comfortable, even with nothing on the radar you have to be vigilant

 

Good to see they're not destroying the Captain to make themselves feel better.

 

well yes,

I refer to the strait as off Singapore, maybe wrongly - dunno

 

anyway, that piece of water is more often than not extremely busy

with vessels moving around disorderly in all sorts of directions

 

I quite enjoy fish, can do without fishing vessels though

 

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Cmdr Benson, the Fitzgerald's captain when it crashed

on his way out of US Navy.

 

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/11/21/navy-to-allow-ex-fitz-co-to-retire-at-current-rank/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Navy DNR 112119&utm_term=Editorial - Navy - Daily News Roundup

 

 

Am still waiting for the naval investigation reports from;

a) the US Navy

b) the civil Japanese investigation board

 

about time they surface . . . .

 

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2 hours ago, melvinmelvin said:

 

Cmdr Benson, the Fitzgerald's captain when it crashed

on his way out of US Navy.

 

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/11/21/navy-to-allow-ex-fitz-co-to-retire-at-current-rank/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Navy DNR 112119&utm_term=Editorial - Navy - Daily News Roundup

 

 

Am still waiting for the naval investigation reports from;

a) the US Navy

b) the civil Japanese investigation board

 

about time they surface . . . .

 

maybe they are keeping them in a sub?

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The destroyer that crashed off Japan, Fitzgerald, is now floating again ... .

 

https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2020/02/03/destroyer-wrecked-in-deadly-2017-accident-returns-to-sea/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NAV DNR 2.3.20&utm_term=Editorial - Navy - Daily News Roundup

 

about time for the crash investigation reports to be published ... . ..

 

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at last,

 

US Navy Times on the Fitz, and the findings of the US civil investigation.

 

https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2020/09/03/national-transportation-safety-board-faults-us-navy-for-fitzgerald-collision/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Navy DNR 09-03-20&utm_term=Editorial - Navy - Daily News Roundup

 

If I have understood it correctly there are at lest 2 more investigation reports to surface,

the US military investigation report

the Japanese civil investigation report

 

 

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