USNS Alan Shepard ran aground in Bahrain after captain left bridge to eat,

It’s the explosive anchorage just southwest of the outer anchorage’s. Which is south of the termination of the Buoyed channel into Bahrain. I looked at it on the chart today and he couldn’t have had more than a mile box to be driving around in. They were directed by Bahrain port to proceed to Anchorage and await pilot. They chose to MODLOC instead it seems like (basically MSCs common practice of driving around in a defined box rather than anchoring. I sure would have tried to make a port turn.

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