[image] Fitzgerald officer of the deck pleads guilty at court-martial Lt. j.g. Sarah Coppock, in charge of navigating the USS Fitzgerald when it collided with a commercial vessel, is among 18 sailors who faced nonjudicial punishment in the wake of separate collisions involving two Japan-ba…

I was wondering about the requirement to call the CO for CPAs, I’m not surprised to to see the requirement is 6000 yards and it seems like the watch officer believed there was an implicit understanding not to call. Coppock described an unspoken culture on the ship not to follow the standing orders…

So, when I was in that part of the world, I just called the Captain and gave him an overall idea of what the contact picture looked like and, then, updated him if it changed appreciably. IMO, there’s no reason to CPA contacts within 600 yards at 20 knots in those waters to begin with, much less with…

I recall most ships I was on that CO would get a call if vis went to 3000 yds, 6000 in a crowded channel, especially at 20kts seems ridiculous. They were out of control LONG before they started navigating that channel if culture aboard that ship is what she infers. “We would have called him every …

[image] Kennebec_Captain: I was wondering about the requirement to call the CO for CPAs, I’m not surprised to to see the requirement is 6000 yards and it seems like the watch officer believed there was an implicit understanding not to call. CO’s preference. I’ve seen anywhere from 3-5NM. I’…

It’s seems like “common sense” that requiring a call at greater CPAs is safer. If 3 miles is good, 5 miles must be better. But there are second order effects to such over-simplifed precautions. The bridge watch officers are not going to want to comply with requirements they feel are unnessary. I’d …

For the life of me I simply can’t understand someone standing on the bridge and watching a ship come along and hit you. Perhaps she was looking the wrong way or had her head buried in a radar. Perhaps she relied entirely on the radar and didn’t correlate that picture with ships in sight. I don’t …

What you have written is in line with my own experience but in my day the OOW did not sit down. This practice was also followed in the Merchant vessels with the pilots chair being secured in the aft corner of the bridge so it was unusable. On one Frigate (Whitby class) my watch relief, who was new …

What you have written is in line with my own experience but in my day the OOW did not sit down Also true on every CG / DDG I’ve ever been on. The watch standers all stand on the bridge. I’m not sure of USN procedures but it seems the OOD was rooted to the spot somehow or perhaps restricted by h…

[image] Jughead: I would also involve the lookouts who may be totally inexperienced, wandering out to chat and point out ships that I wanted watched closely and which to accord less attention. This encourages them to report more often and with more interest. The lookouts were inexperienced an…

FITZGERALD Officer of the Deck Pleads Guilty At Court-Martial

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Alan_Newport May 8, 2018, 9:02pm 2

I uh, I don’t know what to say.

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