Navy Crews Found at Fault for Collisions

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Not enough crew to properly man the ships.

Just read a lengthy article in Military.com about the findings and recommendations to correct. One item was lack of taking for responsibility while on duty. As stated, no physical lookouts due to shortage of crew.

Really no excuse for any of the collisions. The ships have outstanding radar and sonar systems. Computers should've set off alarms of possible closing of another vessel.

I'm wondering if we are also seeing a society of nobody being ready to take responsibility. "It's not my job to do that." Or fear of what a wrong decision might bring.

Which displays how badly things were allowed to erode in the Navy. The person who "has the con" is supposed to announce it on the Bridge so everyone knows who is in charge and they know which voice to listen to. When that person hands off the con the new person announces they have the con. I would be interested to know when this simple age old process vanished.

No. They still use it on Star Trek!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

When there is a collision at sea the crew are ALWAYS to blame. There is hundreds of years of procedure that has been developed to prevent those collisions. Violate procedure (human decisions and volition) and disasters occur.

It ain't rocket science.

It IS rocket science for a whole bunch of green kids. -----do not mock them------they were my children when I was in the navy----
Innocent kids with far too much on their little innocent baby shoulders

Every person on the Bridge is allowed to challenge an order once. Everyone kept silent as the ships were rammed and sailors died.

they are kids and afraid. SHEEEESH you have no compassion for those poor farm boys-----

You must have been with the Sea Cadets. My sailors were farm boys until the word was passed, "Underway, shift colors!" Than it was all business.

 

[rightwinger]

Monday morning quarterbacks

Inept crew

cynic

Doesn't take much to see an oil tanker or container ship

 

[rightwinger]

How the **** do you run into a ship in the middle of the ocean?

The ocean is huge. Ships are huge and they don't move all that fast.

Plus, we have this new fangled invention called RADAR!

The ocean is huge, big water, ocean water

 

[Weatherman2020]

Not enough crew to properly man the ships.

Just read a lengthy article in Military.com about the findings and recommendations to correct. One item was lack of taking for responsibility while on duty. As stated, no physical lookouts due to shortage of crew.

Really no excuse for any of the collisions. The ships have outstanding radar and sonar systems. Computers should've set off alarms of possible closing of another vessel.

I'm wondering if we are also seeing a society of nobody being ready to take responsibility. "It's not my job to do that." Or fear of what a wrong decision might bring.

Which displays how badly things were allowed to erode in the Navy. The person who "has the con" is supposed to announce it on the Bridge so everyone knows who is in charge and they know which voice to listen to. When that person hands off the con the new person announces they have the con. I would be interested to know when this simple age old process vanished.

No. They still use it on Star Trek!

Apparently Star Trek is the only ones following protocol.