Two months ago, on the early morning of 17 June 2017, a US Navy destroyer, USS Fitzgerald, collided with a merchant ship, ACX Crystal, near Japan. Seven of Fitzgerald’s crew were killed and several others were injured.
It has happened again. Another US Navy destroyer, USS John S McCain, has collided with a merchant ship, Alnic MC, near Singapore. Five of McCain’s sailors are injured and, at this time, ten sailors are missing.
So I was thinking, if only we had some way of bouncing radio waves off objects and displaying the result on a screen. Then our ships could avoid other ships.
However, until such a device is invented, we could station a couple of sailors on the ship’s bridge to watch for other ships. We could call those sailors "lookouts", because it would be their job to yell, "Look out! We're gonna crash!"
Sarcasm. Sorry. It’s just … what is going on with US Navy ships?
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