http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...rchant-vessel-off-japan/ar-BBCMzfn?li=BBnb7Kz
Someone is about to lose their job. Unbelievable.
Someone is about to lose their job. Unbelievable.
Mari Yamaguchi | AP
YOKOSUKA, Japan — The search for seven U.S. Navy sailors who went missing after their destroyer collided with a container ship off the Japanese coast was called off after several bodies were found Sunday in the ship’s flooded compartments, including sleeping quarters.
Navy divers found “a number of” bodies in the USS Fitzgerald, a day after the destroyer collided with a Philippine-flagged container ship four times its size, said Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin, the commander of the Navy’s 7th Fleet. Aucoin, speaking at a news conference at the 7th Fleet’s home base in Yokosuka, Japan, wouldn’t say how many bodies were recovered, pending notification of next of kin.
He said that much of the crew of about 300 was asleep when the collision happened at 2:20 a.m. Saturday, and that one machinery room and two berthing areas for 116 crew members were severely damaged. Aucoin said the destroyer — which returned to Yokosuka on Saturday evening with the help of tug boats — was hit on the side and there was a significant impact.
The victims might have been killed by the impact of the collision or drowned in the flooding, said Navy spokesman Lt. Paul Newell, who led the media on a visit to get a firsthand look at the mangled destroyer.
The damage to the destroyer suggests that the container ship, the ACX Crystal, might have slammed into it at a high speed. This has raised questions as to whether there was proper communication between the two vessels, particularly given how busy the waters where the collision occurred are.
More info at the link above.The container ship was seen making a U-turn before the collision on some ship trackers, a move that has raised questions about what happened. Both Aucoin and the Japanese coast guard, however, said it was too early to determine what led to the collision.
The coast guard questioned crew members of the ACX Crystal, and is treating the incident as a case of possible professional negligence, said Masayuki Obara, a regional coast guard official.
It's an interesting question: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog...rald_story_we_are_getting_from_the_media.htmlThe container ship's course seemed almost designed to cause a collision. Wonder who the true owner is?
So all you have to do to disappear from the radar of one of the most advanced ships in the world is disable your transponder? I don't buy that. The small ships are the ones that are issue on radar. Not 900' container ships. Those don't disappear off radar.It's an interesting question: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog...rald_story_we_are_getting_from_the_media.html
There are a world of questions to be answered...So all you have to do to disappear from the radar of one of the most advanced ships in the world is disable your transponder? I don't buy that. The small ships are the ones that are issue on radar. Not 900' container ships. Those don't disappear off radar.
I agree, but it seems odd that one of the most advanced warships in the world couldn't avoid a hulking container ship.So all you have to do to disappear from the radar of one of the most advanced ships in the world is disable your transponder? I don't buy that. The small ships are the ones that are issue on radar. Not 900' container ships. Those don't disappear off radar.
By FORD FESSENDEN and DEREK WATKINS UPDATED June 19th at 6:50 a.m.
The Japanese Coast Guard is trying to determine why a large Philippine ship took almost an hour to report its collision with the U.S.S. Fitzgerald off the coast of Japan on Saturday. Seven sailors were killed.
Whole thing is strange. If it were intentional, someone on the bridge should have seen the ship coming at them on radar.I agree, but it seems odd that one of the most advanced warships in the world couldn't avoid a hulking container ship.
Maybe it was simply a mistake, maybe not.