Simple. This is high density area with many ships and they may not have been in a TSS or designated transit channel. Smeone made a Rules of the Road error. Based on where each ship has damage, I suspect the USN conning officer and CIC did not follow the COLREGS and that this was a crossing situation. “Red stop and…

Generally everyone who’s actually ON watch is qualified. And those quals are no joke. There are usually two officers on watch on the bridge - the OOD and a Junior OOD (who is training to be OOD). You’ve also got a Quartermaster of the Watch doing manual navigation as well as a Boatswainmate of the Watch driving the…

No need to be nervous, because they know their careers are finished. Even more so due to the fact they have missing crew.

Every ex says that

I think the nighttime conditions had a lot to do with it.

Warship for sale as-is:

Or a spider in the wheel!

No naval vessel is going to be okay with some random merchant vessel restricting it’s freedom of movement. It increases the risk of nefarious “merchant” vessels forcing a navy ship into an ambush.

It will be interesting to see how this story unfolds. I have sailed on both naval and merchant ships, and especially at night the erratic maneuvering and relatively poor navigation lighting systems of naval ships can be quite confusing on the bridge of a merchant ship that only has one guy trying to run collision…

Well, a B1 is a pretty big cock....

I don’t think anyone is really that worried about North Korean anti-ship missiles. As the recent events in Yemen have demonstrated, US warships are quite capable of defending themselves from a limited number of missiles.

Would you expect they’d be getting worse with every launch?

Because he clearly stated he’s a Trump supporter? I hate they guy too, but I’m also tired of negative Trump bullshit being inserted into every aspect of my life.

Haha

Wow! The media knows everything? The media is right ALL THE TIME
? It’s to the point of unfairly and actively trying to destroy Trump. Is this ethical in itself?

To a certain extent, isn’t the POTUS in charge of what gets deemed classified vs. not? In that context, he didn’t do anything illegal, just something merely stupid and damaging that further speaks to his incompetence?

Remember when Jalopnik only had car shit on its homepage, not some article by a fucking goon with a name synonymous with what you would think is a shitty wannabe Atlanta rapper?

LOL I have no idea NESW are called the “cardinal” directions.

“Republican men were more likely than Democratic men to correctly locate North Korea and were in favor of the diplomatic approaches offered by the researchers; women, regardless of party affiliation, were able to find the country at similar rates, the Times noted.”