Another Collision.

every time I go to the bridge while underway, I'm always amazed at the professionalism and SA exhibited by even the most junior members of the bridge team.
 
As Ford is new probably only the best were assigned to her.
 
The Ford is also one of our baddest boats going which would probably drive crew experience etc. as well.
 
Sounds like you have good "Crew Resource Management" on your ship, Gregory. Many accidents in the past in aviation were exacerbated by junior crewmembers afraid to speak up to an authorative captain when the junior member saw a problem developing.
 
You can have all the resources in the world reporting inputting, but someone has to make sense of the information. That is the commanders job. The Navy has 300 million dollar radar systems, AIS, guys on watch, and a full CIC. None of that is worth a damn if the commander does not sort out the threats. Within CRM there is resources and there is management of those resources. The Navy does not lack for resources, but it appears to have a problem managing those resources in a concise and coherent manner that prioritizes threats and traps errors. Threat and error management is the next and logical step in CRM.

Give you a perfect example. Yesterday coming home from the eclipse, near Greenville, a school bus stopped in front of me to let out a little girl on a two lane road. I stop about 100 feet behind. The bus was lit up with red lights and stop sign like a May Day parade. My wife said, "I would hate to have my child crossing this road to her house every day".#1 identification of threat by a resource. The little girl gets out of the bus and starts to cross in front of the bus. Threat realized. I am alert for errors now and am formulating plans for errors. On coming car to the bus coming at a good clip opposite direction, should be braking but is not. Error. I blow my horn long and freeze the little girl in front of the bus. I quickly pull into the oncoming lane with bright headlights and block the oncoming car. Trap. Idiot slams on brakes, screeches to a stop but had I not done what I had done, would have hit her. Resource, management of the threat, trapping of the threat.
 
I will say without hesitation that anything is possible. It might be remote, but it is possible. With increased networking of facilities on board and communications, sure.
I am HOPING they have an adequate firewall in the appropriate places to isolate the equipment they depend on for protection. It all depends on how things are laid out. Don't forget that Home Depot and Target were hacked because a contractor had access to their mainframes and the contractor windows system was hacked to get the mainframe password. If they share crew email links with secure systems look out.

Why do I say anything is possible? Well, I had a ubiquity router on our boat that I used for long range wifi. If I enabled the SSH server it was only a matter of a short while before some dirt bag in the Ukraine was trying to hack the login password with a generic password attack.

Not long ago someone hacked routers that impacted the name servers of some sites and directed them to places in East Europe. All of this crap is real and in our faces all of the time.

It's really easy to drop your drawers in public.
 
Just heard today that the Navy has went from 3 lookouts to 1. They have eliminated the 16 week officer's boat school in favor of a CD.
 
So now I can get a degree, probably a master's degree online, CO training from a CD, and run blind. Good economics there eh?
 
If I heard correctly, the commander of the 7th fleet has been relieved of his post.
 
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-navy-crash-idUSKCN1B308A -----

“Admiral Scott Swift, commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet, today relieved the commander of Seventh Fleet, Vice Admiral Joseph Aucoin, due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command,” the U.S. Navy said in a press release.

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But still no definitive actions that will enable the Navy to coexist with merchant marine. A newspaper in China came out and declared our Navy a hazard to navigation and I don't blame them.
 
What I don't understand is that both of these last two collisions have happened in heavily traveled lanes. So why is it that only US Navy ships are involved? Or have there been other unreported collisions?

Roy
 
Gcaptain probably would have reported any additional accidents and it has been quiet in that area IIRC.
 
High operational tempo due to fewer ships cuts into training.
 
In other words, our boats are at sea more than they probably should be due to a lack of boats to rotate through duty enabling repairs and training for off duty crew and ships?

Driven by budget cuts I presume.
 
Latest I read claims the McClain may have "lost steering " just before the incident and regained steering just after. ( Which may or may not support the hacking conspiracy theory. If it was gps signal manipulation , one would think other ships would be affected at the same time.)

Why would the buck stop with Vice Admiral Aucoin and not with Admiral Swift ....or the "commander-in-chief"... if officers beyond those onboard the incident ships are relieved ?
 
From the article getaway posted.

"and the relative motion of ships closing from the side may not seem like an immediate threat if there's nothing to draw them back to attention."

I hate to inform the author, but a vessel on collision course with yours......has no relative motion.
 
huh? You don't consider getting closer relative motion?
 
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