U.S. and Russia trade blame over near collision in East Asian waters

19 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

Of all the issues surrounding the USS Fitzgerald - MV ACX Crystal incident, a few struck me as staggering...

Earlier in the year, a rash of accidents and near misses had spooked the sailors of the 7th Fleet. In January, the destroyer USS Antietam had run aground while in Yokosuka’s harbor. Four months later, on May 9, the USS Lake Champlain, a guided-missile cruiser, collided with a South Korean fishing vessel in the Sea of Japan.

The ship’s email system, for both classified and non-classified material, failed repeatedly. Officers used Gmail instead.

And just before impact...

Instead, Coppock ordered a move that disregarded the very basics of her training.  She commanded the helmsman to gun the destroyer’s powerful engines to full speed and duck in front of the Crystal by heading left. “All ahead flank,” she ordered. “Hard left rudder.”

Helmsman-in-training Simona Nelson had taken the wheel of a destroyer at sea for the first time in her life 25 minutes earlier. Nelson froze, unsure of how to respond.

https://features.propublica.org/navy-accidents/uss-fitzgerald-destroyer-crash-crystal/

 

https://features.propublica.org/navy-accidents/us-navy-crashes-japan-cause-mccain/

 

https://www.propublica.org/article/navy-commander-tainted-investigation#

 

Those are four different ships.