The bottom line is that the Captain of a ship is totally responsible for his command and always has been in the US Navy. With few exceptions, Halsey at Cape Engano leaving the northern approaches to the Leyte beachead defended by escort carriers and destroyers comes to mind, the captain of a command pays the price for any incident elated to that command. Witness the fate of the Captain of USS Indianapolis in WW2 or, more recently, the Captain of USS Enterprise in the 1980's when she ran aground in SF Bay returning from a Westpac deployment. Unlike the other services, the Navy has usually never hesitated to relieve a captain of command over these types of incidents. When a ship's captain assumes command, he becomes literally God on earth to those under his command. With that kind of power and responsibility comes the same level of accountability and responsibility. I am not surprised by this report. IIRC, the captain of the submarine that sank that Japanese fishing boat off Hawaii will never get command again either.