well hopefully we'll get photos of it in dry dock. im interested to see if there's damage below the water line. the USS Cole after the terrorists attack. how did they keep the this afloat ??
Good luck on that Chrissy. The facts will eventually come in...but who's facts will have the truth is something I believe we will never know for sure.
A ship once hit a huge ice berg and sank. I wonder who owned that big ice cube and why it was sitting there in the ships path. I bet we never find out the real details. Theory 1: it was guided set there by polar bears as a warning anticipating climate change. Theory 2: It was drifting silently without running lights to sneak into Canada. Theory 3: It was a attempting to evade import duties. Or, some time an accident is just a cigar that serves as a trash tray.
Uh, they say with much pumping when rolls of Bounty paper towels failed. Kalvi I don't believe you said that, sometimes just think and leave it alone "K"
Fitzgerald would be loaded with radar, constantly being observed, would it not? Thus, a huge hulk approaching it regardless of circumstances, would have been detected quite awhile before collision would be possible, no? Something's fishy. Frank
According to some of the reports, the Philippine cargo ship had turned off their lights and transponder; thus making them virtually invisible in the water until they crashed into the destroyer. This seem to me to be the only story that makes sense, because if everyone had lights and radar working, there is NO way that one of them should have been able to accidentally (or on purpose) crash into the other ship.
@Yvonne Smith I like your analysis of it, but fail to understand how RADAR on the part of Fitzgerald could fail to see the cargo vessel approaching, regardless of any other conditions. No hulk the size of the cargo ship could be invisible to radar, no matter the circumstances. Frank
I question they're ability to handle these monsters note the bulbous bow. I suspect that may have done severe damage below the Fitz's waterline
It is very sad this happen but I am very surprised that no one was at watch on either boat and no radar contact on the destroyer. This sounds very strange Ships at sea normally the bigger has the right of way because they have poorer chance to move out of the way. I sailed for six years on the ocean and you can see those big ships miles away even at night.
This mornings news is that another of our destroyers was also rammed in the side, this one the USS John McCain, near Singapore. This is the second time in the last two months that this has happened, and the fourth such collision in the past year. What is happening here folks ? I think it is just like now we have someone in a vehicle plowing into crowds of people. Those kinds of accidents didn't use to happen before either, unless it was someone very drunk, or had a heart attack, or something similar, and when it did happen; it was actually an accident. This would appear to be a similar kind of thing, and our Navy destroyers are being rammed in the side and putting them out of operation. The last cargo ship that rammed us had turned off their transmitters and so they were not detected by the destroyer until it was too late for them to maneuver out of the way. Some posts on Facebook are also mentioning some kind of a bomb, and this seems also possible. We have suicide bombers, people with a bomb attached, so why not a whole cargo ship with a bomb in the nose ?
There is something very strange about both. How could a slower moving boat hit a faster moving boat?? Maybe the electronics on the ships not working and if that was true how could they ever protect themselves from a missile?? Interesting