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Not a bit surprised.

I was in the Navy 40 years ago. We had fore and aft lookouts. Have they stopped using them? The sonar operators didn't notice a ship's screws getting closer and closer? Was everyone asleep?

http://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2017/08/17/fitzgerald-co-other-sailors-to-be-disciplined-in-connection-to-fatal-collision/

Fitzgerald’s CO and sailors standing watch face discipline in fatal collision

Geoff Ziezulewicz ?  11 hours ago

Watch standers to face non-judicial punishment in incident that killed seven sailors

The Navy plans to discipline up to a dozen Fitzgerald sailors, including the commanding officer, in connection to the destroyer’s fatal June collision with a commercial ship that led to the drownings of seven sailors in their berthing. In addition to Cmdr. Bryce Benson, the CO who was injured when the ACX Crystal struck the ship on June 17, the executive officer, Cmdr. Sean M. Babbitt, and Command Master Chief Brice A. Baldwin will also undergo non-judicial punishment this week, Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Bill Moran said Thursday.
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Other sailors slated to be disciplined include “people that were on watch that night,” he said. Moran said “the bridge lost situational awareness” before the Crystal struck the destroyer at about 1:30 a.m. local time off the coast of Japan. The rate of closure and lack of maneuver space meant there was “not enough time nor room” to avoid a collision, he said.
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Other Navy investigations regarding who was at fault in the collision remain ongoing, and Moran declined to discuss the details. He said that disciplining Fitzgerald sailors does not indicate the destroyer’s crew was solely at fault. “We don’t know yet whether the Fitzgerald is fully responsible for the mishap,” he said. “But we know mistakes were made.” More disciplinary actions could come about as investigations continue, Moran said.
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