USS Fitzgerald

[Chainfire]

As a former sailor, my best guess is that some OOD, along with the rest of the duty watch and the old man, are in deep dodo.

How a small, fast, destroyer type can be hit by a lumbering merchant vessel is inexplicable unless the whole bridge watch was badly distracted or asleep.

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[old tanker]

As a former sailor, my best guess is that some OOD, along with the rest of the duty watch and the old man, are in deep dodo.

How a small, fast, destroyer type can be hit by a lumbering merchant vessel is inexplicable unless the whole bridge watch was badly distracted or asleep.

It happened around 3 bells on the mid watch. You would think that seeing both green and red nav lights on the horizon at the same time would get a lookouts attention. Curious to see what the Board of Inquiry will say.