melvinmelvin Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 13 minutes ago, manarak said: his defense team is not wrong. but there are other issues. what do you all think about being given a ship with a crew that hasn't performed mandatory certifications, but is still given missions? should a CO refuse to carry out the mission as long as training isn't up to the navy's official standards? A CO might get away, flak free, with that today - after the accidents, but it would have been quite problematic 2 years ago - me thinks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oztaurus Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 On 6/17/2017 at 1:49 PM, klauskunkel said: brake failure? ... and the driver ran away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanLaew Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 2 hours ago, melvinmelvin said: The defense team for the skipper, Mr Benson, requests that the judges drop the court martial against Benson. Claiming that the top management in the navy has made a fair trial impossible. https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2018/11/16/defense-team-navy-brass-made-it-impossible-for-former-fitzgerald-skipper-to-get-fair-trial/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Navy Times 11-16-18&utm_term=Editorial - Navy - Daily News Roundup Pretty damning evidence that the CNO and VCNO are hell-bent of fire-walling their sloping-shoulders. An ex- USN friend says that the overall situation of how the Navy delivers Commander's Intent in the Pacific fleet is dire, especially how "Force Generation – the process of maintaining, training and certifying naval forces" is being implemented. Sailors go through a pressured regimen of training that is little more than a 'box checking' exercise. These do little to encourage the mastery of any particular skill and understanding of basic principles and thus imperils crew discipline and basic on-deck command and control. If there's a lack of focus and in-depth understanding by the Captain due to some incoherent, incremental certification process that's mismanaged by a fundamentally disengaged shore command, then in my opinion, there's little hope for basic seamanship at sea and accidents will happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melvinmelvin Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 5 minutes ago, NanLaew said: Pretty damning evidence that the CNO and VCNO are hell-bent of fire-walling their sloping-shoulders. An ex- USN friend says that the overall situation of how the Navy delivers Commander's Intent in the Pacific fleet is dire, especially how "Force Generation – the process of maintaining, training and certifying naval forces" is being implemented. Sailors go through a pressured regimen of training that is little more than a 'box checking' exercise. These do little to encourage the mastery of any particular skill and understanding of basic principles and thus imperils crew discipline and basic on-deck command and control. If there's a lack of focus and in-depth understanding by the Captain due to some incoherent, incremental certification process that's mismanaged by a fundamentally disengaged shore command, then in my opinion, there's little hope for basic seamanship at sea and accidents will happen. In some of the many reports from the navy re these accidents you may see that they have kinda come to the same conclusion as you re training some measures suggested include longer periods of internship before being given the "wheel" more training both on shore and on board focused on ship handling/seamanship both the practical side and the more theoretical side Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manarak Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 2 hours ago, melvinmelvin said: A CO might get away, flak free, with that today - after the accidents, but it would have been quite problematic 2 years ago - me thinks I think you are right... looks like a lose-lose situation ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melvinmelvin Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 7 hours ago, manarak said: I think you are right... looks like a lose-lose situation ? lose lose? maybe but for sure the US navy has some severe challenges (education, training, certification, workload, rest periods, attitude/responsibility .........) very interestingly there seem to be some significant similarities between these 2 destroyer crashes and the Norwegian frigate that crashed last week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxerjon Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 Captain. "Oh Shit!" Navigating Officer. "What are your intentions now, sir?" Captain. "Buy a farm" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manarak Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 On 11/17/2018 at 12:22 PM, melvinmelvin said: lose lose? maybe but for sure the US navy has some severe challenges (education, training, certification, workload, rest periods, attitude/responsibility .........) very interestingly there seem to be some significant similarities between these 2 destroyer crashes and the Norwegian frigate that crashed last week looks like they all need anti-collision systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melvinmelvin Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 McCain, the destroyer that crashed off Singapore is in the water (and floating) again. see story; https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2018/11/28/warship-john-s-mccain-returns-to-the-water-for-the-first-time-since-last-summers-fatal-collision/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Navy Times 11-28-18&utm_term=Editorial - Navy - Daily News Roundup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melvinmelvin Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 here is a link to an interesting piece of news in the US Navy Times https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/01/11/ship-owners-to-pay-us-government-for-fitzgerald-collision/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Navy Times 1-11-19&utm_term=Editorial - Navy - Daily News Roundup seem to be costly affairs these destroyer crashes A QUESTION, the accident investigation board, has it concluded or is it still at work? I mean the civil Japanese board, not the USN board cannot recall hearing anything re final report/findings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metisdead Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 Some off topic posts have been removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tug Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 Fitzgerald is at fault the damage is on her starboard side if someone approaches your starboard side you are the (give way vessel) also the merchantmen is a much larger vessel and falls under the restriction ability to maneuver class plus her damage is on her port bow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melvinmelvin Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 18 minutes ago, Tug said: Fitzgerald is at fault the damage is on her starboard side if someone approaches your starboard side you are the (give way vessel) also the merchantmen is a much larger vessel and falls under the restriction ability to maneuver class plus her damage is on her port bow yes, that is common thinking, but read the link that I posted above, some further perspectives are penned there shows why such cases often end with fault/blame-sharing - black/white - clean/cut is rare re marine accidents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patriot1066 Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 5 hours ago, Tug said: Fitzgerald is at fault the damage is on her starboard side if someone approaches your starboard side you are the (give way vessel) also the merchantmen is a much larger vessel and falls under the restriction ability to maneuver class plus her damage is on her port bow Yes in normal circumstance that is correct but they have identified several issues with the civilian vessel including it on autopilot and lack of supervision. https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/why-the-destroyer-crash-that-killed-seven-u-s-sailors-1796462864 This is an older post which sort of makes some sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melvinmelvin Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 1 hour ago, Patriot1066 said: Yes in normal circumstance that is correct but they have identified several issues with the civilian vessel including it on autopilot and lack of supervision. https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/why-the-destroyer-crash-that-killed-seven-u-s-sailors-1796462864 This is an older post which sort of makes some sense. good link, thanks must say though, not much impressed with what is uttered Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patriot1066 Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 19 hours ago, melvinmelvin said: good link, thanks must say though, not much impressed with what is uttered Yes I agree with you, interesting. I wonder if there is something going on, they are not actually releasing? I would respectfully defer to your better knowledge of the rules and protocols though, rather me reading internet articles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melvinmelvin Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 Guys, I do recommend reading this; https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/01/14/worse-than-you-thought-inside-the-secret-fitzgerald-probe-the-navy-doesnt-want-you-to-read/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Navy Times 1-14-19&utm_term=Editorial - Navy - Daily News Roundup what is revealed here is way more than average interesting, here many of the deficiencies and shortcomings re destroyer Fitzgerald are highlighted Quite frightening really There is no easy and no speedy way for the US Navy to sort this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melvinmelvin Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 Here is some more concrete information re circumstances the day before crash and the day of the crash https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/01/14/a-warship-doomed-by-confusion-indecision-and-ultimately-panic-on-the-bridge/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Navy Times 1-14-19&utm_term=Editorial - Navy - Daily News Roundup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melvinmelvin Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 This is from probably one of the very first inspections/investigations after the crash https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/01/14/the-ghost-in-the-fitzs-machine-why-a-doomed-warships-crew-never-saw-the-vessel-that-hit-it/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Navy Times 1-14-19&utm_term=Editorial - Navy - Daily News Roundup Here the massive lack of competence is highlighted, frightening stuff this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melvinmelvin Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 This is some pre-crash history re the Fitz but also some highlights of conditions on board the Fitz right after the crash https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/01/15/a-watery-hell-how-a-green-crew-fought-the-fitz-to-save-her/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melvinmelvin Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 After reading the above report snippets one (at least I) has to ask; To what extent is the complete mess described re the Fitz specific to that ship? Or would all USN destroyers be similarly messy, in one way or the other. What about other USN ships? Messy or streamlined? From what the navy as published, report wise, earlier (last year), it looks as if shortcomings in marine competence, seamanship and ability to drive a warship safely is a general problem in the USN (they said so themselves). (and USN is not alone here) But apart from that, what about the rest that is reported and highlighted in the prev. few posts, specific to the Fitz or a general problem? Would have been interesting to have a McCain (the off SIngapore crash) report and compared the two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patriot1066 Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 3 hours ago, melvinmelvin said: Guys, I do recommend reading this; https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/01/14/worse-than-you-thought-inside-the-secret-fitzgerald-probe-the-navy-doesnt-want-you-to-read/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Navy Times 1-14-19&utm_term=Editorial - Navy - Daily News Roundup what is revealed here is way more than average interesting, here many of the deficiencies and shortcomings re destroyer Fitzgerald are highlighted Quite frightening really There is no easy and no speedy way for the US Navy to sort this one. Very informative post Thankyou Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nauseus Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 (edited) On 6/17/2017 at 8:31 AM, quadperfect said: Ais ,radar ,watch command . As a american i am truly embarrassed. This should never happen ever. Remember the uss cole incident. I'm glad you volunteered that, far too many collisions involving US warships. But the Cole was actually damaged in a terrorist attack. - quite different. I know from experience that they don't like to give way (even if they don't have right of way) but what's the point of risking collision if they are not actually fighting? These ships are so well equipped that the only acceptable excuses for a collision are mechanical or technical failure, or a deliberate ramming in combat. Edited January 15, 2019 by nauseus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melvinmelvin Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 56 minutes ago, nauseus said: I'm glad you volunteered that, far too many collisions involving US warships. But the Cole was actually damaged in a terrorist attack. - quite different. I know from experience that they don't like to give way (even if they don't have right of way) but what's the point of risking collision if they are not actually fighting? These ships are so well equipped that the only acceptable excuses for a collision are mechanical or technical failure, or a deliberate ramming in combat. if you skim through the links I have posted today, (and also earlier for that matter), you will see that major factors here are not less than lack of competence, lack of experience, lack of preparedness re driving vessels - the list goes on and on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nauseus Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 43 minutes ago, melvinmelvin said: if you skim through the links I have posted today, (and also earlier for that matter), you will see that major factors here are not less than lack of competence, lack of experience, lack of preparedness re driving vessels - the list goes on and on Yes, all unacceptable failures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melvinmelvin Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 2 hours ago, nauseus said: Yes, all unacceptable failures. well, not acceptable, by all means - but some of these accidents are not easily avoidable I refer you to the American sociologist Perrow and his Normal Accidents theory, widely accepted as "good stuff" today, all over the world. In his Normal Accidents book, he explains a series of events/accidents as close to unavoidable, (bound to happen) includes marine/US Coast Guard accidents, Three Mile Island accidents, the Korean 747 shot down over Sakhalin, the US Space Shuttle that was blown into fragments minutes after takeoff - just to name a few. if I should try at giving a hint of the gist of the Normal Accidents theory; it is not mundane factors like a dense fog, forgot steaming lights, AIS screwed, lack of sleep/tiredness that cause the accidents, the accidents come as almost necessary consequences of the whole sociological structure within which the actors live and operate. anyway, from all the reports from the USN that I have read since the off Japan and off Singapore crashes it seems that the USN has understood that the Normal Accidents thinking is indeed relevant to these crashes (they have other crashes too, in similar categories) some of it they already address in adequate (we hope) manners, some will take years and years and more crashes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nauseus Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 14 minutes ago, melvinmelvin said: well, not acceptable, by all means - but some of these accidents are not easily avoidable I refer you to the American sociologist Perrow and his Normal Accidents theory, widely accepted as "good stuff" today, all over the world. In his Normal Accidents book, he explains a series of events/accidents as close to unavoidable, (bound to happen) includes marine/US Coast Guard accidents, Three Mile Island accidents, the Korean 747 shot down over Sakhalin, the US Space Shuttle that was blown into fragments minutes after takeoff - just to name a few. if I should try at giving a hint of the gist of the Normal Accidents theory; it is not mundane factors like a dense fog, forgot steaming lights, AIS screwed, lack of sleep/tiredness that cause the accidents, the accidents come as almost necessary consequences of the whole sociological structure within which the actors live and operate. anyway, from all the reports from the USN that I have read since the off Japan and off Singapore crashes it seems that the USN has understood that the Normal Accidents thinking is indeed relevant to these crashes (they have other crashes too, in similar categories) some of it they already address in adequate (we hope) manners, some will take years and years and more crashes. I read the basic theory, which is OK so far as it goes. But the USN is having a very bad run recently and especially with the Fitzgerald with two collisions in as many years. I don't think the Admirals will regard this accident frequency as "normal" or acceptable. But these days...who knows? The recent USN serious marine accident list is below and it seems only one or two of these occurred when the US was officially at war. If there is no need for close approach then it is not worth the risk but I have seen USN ships do exactly this. During peacetime, risk can generally be reduced for a patrolling warship by just keeping clear of all traffic - they can still easily monitor whatever it is they are interested in and still be in range for their weapons - if there is a war on then that obviously all changes. The supply and support ships listed better fit Perrow's theory; they have to make close approaches as a regular part of their replenishment at sea duties. Link: https://www.statista.com/chart/10782/us-naval-collisions-are-becoming-more-frequent/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melvinmelvin Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 29 minutes ago, nauseus said: I read the basic theory, which is OK so far as it goes. But the USN is having a very bad run recently and especially with the Fitzgerald with two collisions in as many years. I don't think the Admirals will regard this accident frequency as "normal" or acceptable. But these days...who knows? The recent USN serious marine accident list is below and it seems only one or two of these occurred when the US was officially at war. If there is no need for close approach then it is not worth the risk but I have seen USN ships do exactly this. During peacetime, risk can generally be reduced for a patrolling warship by just keeping clear of all traffic - they can still easily monitor whatever it is they are interested in and still be in range for their weapons - if there is a war on then that obviously all changes. The supply and support ships listed better fit Perrow's theory; they have to make close approaches as a regular part of their replenishment at sea duties. Link: https://www.statista.com/chart/10782/us-naval-collisions-are-becoming-more-frequent/ I miss the destroyer mishap in Hormuz, maybe about 5 years ago, same kind of destroyer as Fitz, no fatalaties. My "favourite" mishap was in the 70s, a US Coast Guard training vessel early evening on its way up the river from the Bay, almost cut in two by a container vessel coming down the river from the Washington DC area, sank within minutes - several fatalities Gigantic misunderstandings developed in an unsound sociological structure- typical Normal Accidents kind of mishap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tifino Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 Out of Philippine, and into Japanese waters... - they forgot to glide on the other side of the road! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nauseus Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 5 minutes ago, melvinmelvin said: I miss the destroyer mishap in Hormuz, maybe about 5 years ago, same kind of destroyer as Fitz, no fatalaties. My "favourite" mishap was in the 70s, a US Coast Guard training vessel early evening on its way up the river from the Bay, almost cut in two by a container vessel coming down the river from the Washington DC area, sank within minutes - several fatalities Gigantic misunderstandings developed in an unsound sociological structure- typical Normal Accidents kind of mishap Training? Wonder who was driving? Some careers cut short. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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