USS Fitzgerald collision in C7F

[Ken_gone_flying]

Probably a good thread for this one.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/16/us-navy-warship-collides-with-cargo-ship-off-coast-japan.html

 

[nittany03]

Probably a good thread for this one.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/16/us-navy-warship-collides-with-cargo-ship-off-coast-japan.html

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/16/polit...-collides-with-merchant-ship-japan/index.html
That . . . doesn't look good. Trying to remember what's around that huge dent, but I haven't been on a DDG since I was a mid.

 

[FormerRecruitingGuru]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/16/polit...-collides-with-merchant-ship-japan/index.html
That . . . doesn't look good. Trying to remember what's around that huge dent, but I haven't been on a DDG since I was a mid.

Reminds me of the PORTER incident a few years back but even this is worse than what.

CNN reporting injuries, hope everyone affected gets medical attention quick.

 

[FormerRecruitingGuru]

AP reporting 7 sailors unaccounted for .

 

[nittany03]

Reminds me of the PORTER incident a few years back but even this is worse than what.

CNN reporting injuries, hope everyone affected gets medical attention quick.

Apparently this is the ship that hit her, per Twitter:
http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais...mmsi:548789000/imo:9360611/vessel:ACX_CRYSTAL

I'm certainly no SWO, but that's a hell of a bulbous bow. If that topside damage the CNN footage is showing is from the bow of the merchant . . . yeah.

 

[Treetop Flyer]

AP reporting 7 sailors unaccounted for .

Damn. I saw the damage and wondered how we were so lucky.

 

[xj220]

I didn't even think of the bulb. If the bow hit that far into the ship I can only imagine the damage below the waterline.

 

[FormerRecruitingGuru]

CO injured, 7 missing, XO in command now. Ship not able to move on it's own.

 

[sickboy]

Damn. Red over red. Did I remember that right?

Shoe jokes aside. I hope everyone makes a speedy recovery.

 

[Uncle Fester]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/16/polit...-collides-with-merchant-ship-japan/index.html
That . . . doesn't look good. Trying to remember what's around that huge dent, but I haven't been on a DDG since I was a mid.

Whole bunch of expensive shit.

CO injured, 7 missing, XO in command now. Ship not able to move on it's own.

Damn. Sounds like the bridge wing took the hit. Bad scene all around.

 

[FormerRecruitingGuru]

Whole bunch of expensive shit.



Damn. Sounds like the bridge wing took the hit. Bad scene all around.

The photos showing the damage, looks like COs stateroom along with some enlisted berthing took a hit as well.

 

[exNavyOffRec]

The photos showing the damage, looks like COs stateroom along with some enlisted berthing took a hit as well.

In those pictures it looks like she is down in the water quite a bit with a list to starboard.

 

[FormerRecruitingGuru]

Latest C7F update

http://www.c7f.navy.mil/Media/News/...e-1012am-jst-june-17-2017/platform/hootsuite/

 

[picklesuit]

So, a little history, I was the first person on scene with the Porter when she zigged in front of a Japanese tanker (the Otowasan, if I remember correctly) as we were escorting her, and the Amphib she was escorting, through the SOH.

It was very sobering to see the damage done by a fairly glancing blow with a tanker. There were no jokes about the CO being fired, we just wondered how many people died. Luckily, no one did.

I'm worried that is not going to be the outcome here, as the damage looks way worse on this incident. It will be interesting to see and hear the replay next year, whenever it is released, but I hope one of the takeaways will be a revamp of CRM on the bridge.

Stepping onto the bridge of a warship is so much different than the cockpit of an aircraft, and I feel that it shouldn't be that way. Too much ego, too little sleep, and no ability for the junior person with the better SA to offer an opinion without it getting immediately squashed.

SWO's do this to themselves, repeatedly, and it doesn't have to be this way.

https://pilotonline.com/news/milita...cle_c7472be8-efcb-5763-93bb-aab66d820175.html

I added the audio from the Porter collision to make my point, judging by the hour, aspect, and damage, it looks like a repeat of their mistake.

I really think this should serve as a wake up call to their culture, but doubt it will...

Pickle

 

[nittany03]

Moved this to its own thread; I figure it's in bad taste to leave it in the "fired skippers" thread when there's 7 of our shipmates still missing, and the CO reportedly just got medevaced off his own ship.