God Bless America, God Bless our Military and God Bless the Police who defended the country against the insurgents on January 6, 2021
Think 3rd party for 2024 folks. Clean up America.
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God Bless America, God Bless our Military and God Bless the Police who defended the country against the insurgents on January 6, 2021
Think 3rd party for 2024 folks. Clean up America.
Once I tell you that we agree to disagree there will be no more discussion between us in the thread so please don't waste your time continuing to argue your points because I will not respond.
Peter1469 (08-30-2017)
US Ship: Please divert your course 0.5 degrees to the south to avoid a collision.
CND reply: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.
US Ship: This is the Captain of a US Navy Ship. I say again, divert your course.
CND reply: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course!
US Ship: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS CORAL SEA*, WE ARE A LARGE WARSHIP OF THE US NAVY. DIVERT YOUR COURSE NOW!!
CND reply: This is a lighthouse. Your call.
Last edited by stjames1_53; 08-31-2017 at 09:03 AM.
For waltky: http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/
"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."
- Thucydides
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote" B. Franklin
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
Great article. It was bugging the $#@!e out of me why we couldn't see another vessel coming. Now I know - no one was "looking'. Now I'm curious to know whether something happened to prompt the US Navy not to use the AIS.
Peter1469 (08-31-2017)
One big mistake comes from a lot of little ones...
Navy Admiral: Catastrophic Collisions Result From Accumulation of Small Errors
September 20, 2017 | - Navy officials are not ready to say what is causing U.S. Navy destroyers to collide with merchant vessels, but at a hearing on Tuesday, they spoke in general terms about the human factor: "These catastrophes really result from the accumulation of a number of small errors that build up and line up eventually to create a sequence that results in an incident of this magnitude," Admiral John Richardson told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Last month, ten sailors died when the USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker in a shipping channel off the coast of Singapore. And in June, seven sailors died when the USS Fitzgerald ran into a cargo ship in the Sea of Japan. "Every boat in the Gulf of Maine has a radar on it that tells us when there's another boat within a mile or two miles or five miles -- an alarm goes off, it shows up on your GPS," Sen. Angus King of Maine told Richardson. "How in the world does a billion dollar destroyer not know that there's a freighter closing in on it?" King asked. "Sir, (we) got the same questions," Richardson replied. "It's very hard to understand, with the sophisticated systems onboard these warships, that we'd let a ship get in that close, to the point of collision."
King also asked about the radars on the merchant ships: "Is there some technology that they couldn't see us?" "It wouldn't surprise anybody, I think, that we design our warships to have a lower radar cross-section, some designed to be very low," Richardson replied. "So that degree of stealth makes us more effective from a warfighting standpoint. But that also imposes a burden, if you will, on the crew of that (U.S.) ship to understand that they are low-observable and they may not be as easily seen as something that is as large as a destroyer. They'll have a radar cross-section of a ship that is much smaller."
Since the recent collisions, the Navy has directed its ships to turn on their Automatic Identification Systems, particularly in heavily trafficked areas, so other ships will know the U.S. Navy is in the area. Richardson also explained that for safety reasons, there are many redundancies on the bridge of an advanced Navy destroyer: "The watch team will be on the order of ten people. About four of those will be officers -- the officer of the deck, the junior officer of the deck, officer of the watch, conning officer. There'll be two lookouts, there'll be a quartermaster. And so there's plenty of people involved in this seamanship and navigation on the bridge. "They're supported by a team in the combat information center, which is also looking at electronic displays; they don't have windows, but they're backing them up," Richardson said.
And with respect to the technology, all critical systems, such as navigation, steering, and propulsion, all have back-up systems," Richardson added. "So there's a lot of redundancy built into these systems because they are so fundamental to safety. So now you get a sense...how could all of that break down so catastrophically to result in a collision of this magnitude? And that's why we have to do the thorough investigation.
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article...n-small-errors
Peter1469 (09-24-2017)
They need to follow the established "rules of the road" for shipping lanes.
ΜOΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
waltky (10-05-2017)
It's getting crowded out on the seas.
waltky (10-05-2017)