Example of why I ALWAYS gave the gray-hulls a wide berth. They don’t know WITF they are doing. [image] 2 Navy ships nearly collide while moving through San Diego Bay The vessels were able to maneuver past each other safely and neither ship was damaged, a Navy spokesperson said. No rela…

Were there pilots onboard both these ships? I used to run out of San Diego a lot, and always assumed pilots were on board while transiting the bay. this footage looks like it was somewhere north of Coronado maybe?

My guess too. The LSD hanging a left cutting the corner on his way out to sea with no inbound civilian traffic. Shelter island in the background? [19600576_LRG.24052019103207]

This long video shows what happened before the video in the OP started. At first, it shows the ‘USS Tripoli LHA-7’ coming into the port and crossing there the ‘LSD Harper Ferry’. At about 17:30 minutes, the DDG Momsen comes into view. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3ttxrzu_3U

Another post I saw on Twitter said that, in SD, pilots typically don’t board until at the Coronado Bridge. They essentially serve as docking pilots with the actual harbor transit mostly done solely by the ship’s crew.

I was actually thinking about that…memory is a bit fuzzy, been a long time since I was runnin’ around down there.

The state pilots for SD definitely board ships offshore.

I have always stayed clear of US warships as we all know they dont know…

My post was worded poorly, but I was talking about the Navy pilots. The San Diego Pilot Association handles commercial traffic in San Diego and yes, does board/disembark from vessels offshore. SD pilots are not state pilots though (neither are LA and LB/Jacobsen). The only state pilots in CA are t…

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It seems to go with the colour grey.

The HMAS Melbourne collided with and cut in half the HMAS Voyager in 1964 and in 1969 collided with and cut in half the USS Frank E. Evans.

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