7 sailors missing feared dead after $1.5B US Navy destroyer collides with cargo ship

[Spike]

Who the hell was driving?


Rescuers are searching for seven US Sailors thought to be lost at sea or trapped inside a damaged Navy destroyer which collided with a 29,000 ton cargo ship 56 miles off the coast of Japan Saturday.

The guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald suffered severe damage when the container ship ACX Crystal – which is four times the size of the naval vessel – plowed into it at 2.30am local time.

Aerial footage shows the crushed exterior of the 9,000 ton $1.5billion destroyer which is commanded by Commander Bryce Benson, who took over in May.

Japanese coast guard spokesman Yoshihito Nakamura said the rescuers are searching for the seamen who were thought to have been thrown into the sea or possibly trapped inside damaged sections of the destroyer. Two crew berthings and one engineering main space have been flooded.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...erald-involved-collision-merchant-vessel.html

 

[CharlesDavenport]

Really weird story.

 

[Roy92040]

Well Commander Bryce Benson your new shore duty awaits.

 

[Confluence]

Conservation of momentum 1, heavily armed,unprepared floating target 0

 

[Ironcitysteelers]

Who the hell was driving?


Rescuers are searching for seven US Sailors thought to be lost at sea or trapped inside a damaged Navy destroyer which collided with a 29,000 ton cargo ship 56 miles off the coast of Japan Saturday.

The guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald suffered severe damage when the container ship ACX Crystal – which is four times the size of the naval vessel – plowed into it at 2.30am local time.

Aerial footage shows the crushed exterior of the 9,000 ton $1.5billion destroyer which is commanded by Commander Bryce Benson, who took over in May.

Japanese coast guard spokesman Yoshihito Nakamura said the rescuers are searching for the seamen who were thought to have been thrown into the sea or possibly trapped inside damaged sections of the destroyer. Two crew berthings and one engineering main space have been flooded.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...erald-involved-collision-merchant-vessel.html

 

[Ironcitysteelers]

How da **** does something that damn big sneak up on a destroyer!!!

 

[Confluence]

How da **** does something that damn big sneak up on a destroyer!!!

Believe it or not...this is the transcript of an actual radio conversation between a US naval ship and Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October 1995. The Radio conversation was released by the Chief of Naval Operations on Oct. 10, 1995.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.

 

[SteelChip]

How da **** does something that damn big sneak up on a destroyer!!!

I was wondering the same thing. Destroyers don't turn on a dime, I get it and there was a monster container ship doing 'crazy Ivans' out there at 0 dark thirty in the morning. But really, who lets a ship three times it's size broadside him in the middle of a freakin' ocean ?

 

[Spike]

That's a helluva course for a container ship - where's Wig?

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

That's a helluva course for a container ship - where's Wig?

A drunk walks a straighter line home from the bar. Good grief, what the hell kind of course is that?

 

[Ironcitysteelers]

Point being after the Uss cole, **** gets close light it the **** up. So in this case we have to wait a couple more weeks for our amazon ****. This is another message to the Theads to bring a boat at our ships

 

[Ironcitysteelers]

That's a helluva course for a container ship - where's Wig?

If that's true, how is that not on purpose

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

Katsung will be here soon to tell us how this is a part of the AWG 1972-AR67 Global Coordinated Confrontation of World Leaders in Control of Everything. False Flag attack orchestrated by the highest levels of the Cabal, part of the overall 17 year plan to do something or another.

 

[Steelr4evr]

Um what the **** is that cargo ship doing? Looks like they're steering it by spinning etch&sketch knobs.

 

[ark steel]

Even if the cargo ship intentionally did that, there has to have been quite a bit of incompetence on the navy ship.

 

[Ironcitysteelers]

Even if the cargo ship intentionally did that, there has to have been quite a bit of incompetence on the navy ship.

Right! Burn that ****** down if it gets too close. I don't care if it's joe fisherman in a canoe light his *** up

 

[Ironcitysteelers]

Caption of the ship. Now we know why he didn't stop it

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

Caption of the ship. Now we know why he didn't stop it

I think even Gomer could have avoided a freaking cargo ship that size with his eyes close. I'm perplexed how this could have happened.

 

[CharlesDavenport]

Not a good indicator of the quality of our Navy talent.

 

[Steelin]

The cargo ships course seems to have been mapped out by a blind drunken squirrel or something.

 

[Booted]

Looks like Billy from the Family Circus comic was driving the cargo shop.

 

[Ironcitysteelers]

Damn, found them in flooded compartment. They said the hole almost "sunk our battleship".

 

[Tibs]

Rest in peace to those that lost their lives.

It would be nice to have a president that cares about our servicemen. I guess that's too much to ask. I recall this is the type of thing Spike and others were up in arms about over Obama. Now that the shoe's on the other foot, not such a big deal anymore it seems.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Looks like Billy from the Family Circus comic was driving the cargo shop.

Someone needs to check if a Muslim was piloting the container ship. Seriously.

 

[mightyguru]

I heard that there is video but I can't find it. That cargo ship was doing some crazy **** prior to the collision.