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MPN11
Thanks!
On that evidence, a definite career-limiting exercise. I just can’t figure out why, was all the equipment on the frigate, they failed to ‘see and avoid’ a bloody great tanker!
No idea, looks like everyone on the bridge in charge of navigation had a brain-fart.
Some early speculation are now focusing on strong background lights so as to mask the tankers navigation lights, but all the electronic magic should have have picked up the 820 feet long tanker with a strong radar echo and a working AIS, as well as the warnings from the pilot on the tanker bridge.
Still holding judgement till we know what happened, but some of us have spent time on commercial ships and boats as well as in the cockpit of commercial airplanes and have a hard time grasping this one.