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Originally Posted by Fincuan
1 AM and darkness is not a problem these days. That's what you have ARPA radars, AIS, navigation lights and observers for. Not spotting a ship-sized vessel just can't happen unless several people are ignoring their duties and/or asleep, which doesn't happen on a warship. Warships are run with a fairly large watchstanding crew compared to their civilian counterparts. Incompetence, however, can happen on any ship.
In any case several officers' careers just came to an abrupt stop.
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I know and I agree. I only pointed out Catfish's misunderstanding in time of the incident. I don't understand how this happened - amount of errors that have to happen to get into this point is significant. Investigation report will be interesting read - assuming ofcourse that USN dares to publish it.
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