How does this happen ?

chumlie
chumlie Posts: 8,658
edited August 2012 in The Clubhouse
Oil tanker collides with U.S. Navy destroyer USS Porter near the Strait of Hormuz. With all the electronics on these ships and as big as they are i'm amazed something like this could happen. I'm sure the ayatollah is getting a good chuckle out of this one. Glad nobody is hurt but a Navy ship getting broadsided by an oil tanker. How does this happen ?
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  • Outfitter03
    Outfitter03 Posts: 563
    edited August 2012
    Unfortunately gross human error. Guarantee that this will cost the skipper his command and several people their careers. Having your warship getting hit by a oil tanker in the open sea makes as much sense as being surprised by getting hit by a train on the tracks with the crossing arms down. Big OOPS.
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  • PolkieMan
    PolkieMan Posts: 2,446
    edited August 2012
    The captain was listening to his new Polks :lol:
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  • kevhed72
    kevhed72 Posts: 5,054
    edited August 2012
    If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would call BS on the story itself....but I'm not.:smile:
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  • rebuy
    rebuy Posts: 695
    edited August 2012
    This was a test, just a test. If it had been an actual emergency you would have instructed on where to tune in for further instructions. This concludes this test.
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  • Polkersince85
    Polkersince85 Posts: 2,883
    edited August 2012
    Sometimes it's hard to see a large tanker on the radar.
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited August 2012
    There will be an inquiry. No matter the outcome, the ship's CO is finished in the Navy. The Navy does not tolerate mistakes. They recently removed a submarine's CO because his boat hit an uncharted undersea mountain.

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  • teekay0007
    teekay0007 Posts: 2,289
    edited August 2012
    Polkersince85 wrote: »
    Sometimes it's hard to see a large tanker on the radar.

    That's why we have eyes! :eek: Those oil tankers are like three football fields long and one field wide! :rolleyes:
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited August 2012
    When transitting the staits, ships have to slow down. When they do this, they lose a lot of their steering capacity. Combined with it being 1 a.m., and manuvering in close quarters, not that surprising.
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited August 2012
    Because you weren't there to help out.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,396
    edited August 2012
    it was Bush's fault. :wink:
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited August 2012
    teekay0007 wrote: »
    That's why we have eyes! :eek: Those oil tankers are like three football fields long and one field wide! :rolleyes:

    I blame Americans. Obviously, if we didn't consume so much oil, maybe it would be only 2 football fields long and half as wide, then maybe they wouldn't have hit.


    Otherwise, I think it was a botched pirating attempt that failed and now they're covering it up.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    edited August 2012
    Ever bump a car at a red light ?

    Don't really see this as an issue, let alone a story, considering nobody was hurt, no massive oil spill. Maybe the Pentagon can swing 20 billion for rubber baby buggy bumpers on these ships.
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  • SDA1C
    SDA1C Posts: 2,072
    edited August 2012
    With all of the recent naval activity lately in that area it is rather surprising that it doesn't happen more often.
    Too much **** to list....
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