Re:Why Did a U.S. Destroyer Fail to Dodge a Cargo Ship?
by dba7dba on Monday June 26, 2017 @05:13AM
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Notice USS Port Royal wouldn't have grounded even with all those failures/issues of inexperienced crew, sleep deprived captain, misred equipment, if they they just didn't get close to the shore at evening time.
And the USS Port Royal got close to the shore ONLY because they wanted to let those contractors return to their hotel.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/29065902/ns/us_news-military/t/nav...
The article doesn't say anything about contractors wanting to play golf but I"m telling you I read it in the local press.
And yes, the captain simply could've have said no and told the contractors to stuff it. But he didn't for whatever reason.
That's such a bullshit thing to say. Obviously the civilian dudes didn't asked the ship crew to run aground. And even if they would have with those exact words, it's the job of the person in charge of the vessel to say no. Maybe one can say such things when there is an adverse power dynamics (such as it were with the Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash in 2010), but I don't think that would apply in this case.