Max the Mad Russian
Hands off Ukraine! Feet too
Gents,
I was amazed by the fact that no one on this forum paid an attention to two collisions involved those two USN destroyers this summer, DDG-56 and -62. Maybe I am violating some unwritten law by asking this? If so, let's count it as my "in-job training" here, but still I'd take a risk to ask.
First of all, my prayers with the casualties and MIAs. Second, no one who once stood OOD at sea, no matter which navy or country, can be stupid enough to judge one or another bridge to be guilty, sitting in armchair over beer or coffee - there could be absolutely disasterous situations with SA totally lost by everyone on bridge. It's a sea, the most cruel environment that people could face on this planet, you all know it perhaps better than I do.
So the humble question is: can we suppose that both collisions are to some degree the outcome of some skills shortage of DDGs' COs? And if so - what are the roots? Are they of tactical, leadership, personal or some other origin?
Or - my classmates are driving the container vessels all around the globe, and their opinion of the training and readiness of merchant mariners from the Orient world is way too far from positive - the most part of the blame lays on the commercial bridges?
Honestly, I'd like to believe in latter. Am I right?
I was amazed by the fact that no one on this forum paid an attention to two collisions involved those two USN destroyers this summer, DDG-56 and -62. Maybe I am violating some unwritten law by asking this? If so, let's count it as my "in-job training" here, but still I'd take a risk to ask.
First of all, my prayers with the casualties and MIAs. Second, no one who once stood OOD at sea, no matter which navy or country, can be stupid enough to judge one or another bridge to be guilty, sitting in armchair over beer or coffee - there could be absolutely disasterous situations with SA totally lost by everyone on bridge. It's a sea, the most cruel environment that people could face on this planet, you all know it perhaps better than I do.
So the humble question is: can we suppose that both collisions are to some degree the outcome of some skills shortage of DDGs' COs? And if so - what are the roots? Are they of tactical, leadership, personal or some other origin?
Or - my classmates are driving the container vessels all around the globe, and their opinion of the training and readiness of merchant mariners from the Orient world is way too far from positive - the most part of the blame lays on the commercial bridges?
Honestly, I'd like to believe in latter. Am I right?
