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Safety video - Computer Generated reenactment of collision of frigate in Norway...
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http://s3.amazonaws.com/CHINFO/USS+Fitzgerald+and+USS+John+S+McCain+Collision+Reports.pdfYikes....Kudos to them for publishing their findings.
Hopefully the USN will do the same for the USS McCain and the USS Fitzgerald collisions.
Hopefully the USN will do the same for the USS McCain and the USS Fitzgerald collisions.
https://news.usni.org/2018/02/21/navy-makes-training-simulation-based-fatal-uss-fitzgerald-collisionI should have clarified.......I wish the USN or a qualified third party would develop a simulation which showed the detail instead of reading the reports. The reports back up the case against the sailors and while interesting don't have the same dynamic as a simulation of events. Today's Sailors aren't going to learn a lot by reading reports.
I imagine the Navy's training simulation (and similar products likely used in the investigations) may eventually be able to be accessed by the public. It would also seem to be an ideal project for one of the multitude of history shows out there.I'm glad the Navy took that step. What I was hoping for was a version for public consumption similar to the original posting of this thread.
Anyway, the Navy produced a training film about the tragedy, available here, which was widely used in Navy training.
Good question. Although there were a multitude of contributing causes noted in the investigations, it looks like to me it boils down to a de-emphasis on seamanship training, this in turn for a number of reasons like competing priorities for time and funding, over-commitment of ships to various missions, etc. The Navy is re-instituting seamanship training to try to address this.Excellent film. But it does beg the question that after watching it.....how could the USS McCain and USS Fitzgerald collisions occur? Both had better technology, more accurate radar and the commercial ships had their AIS and navigational lights on.