What the Hell Is Up With The Navy Lately?

[Anomalocaris]

This is a self-correcting issue.  As global warming continues apace, the oceans will get larger and larger.  As long as the number of ships stays roughly the same, the oceans will become less crowded and collisions will decrease.  You're welcome.

Boru

Yeah, but most of the new ocean we will grain will be very shallow, so we might look forward to a spike in incidence of naval ships running aground.

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Things will really look bad if one of our subs crashes.

Not long ago USS San Francisco, a nuke sub, run head on into an underwater mountain at 30 knots.

Until then, I always thought controlled flight into terrain is a hazard unique to those who don't know what they are doing while above mean sea level.

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The course of the ship and surrounding traffic is observed from CIC, Combat Information Center, and this is used at training for The Day. How billions of dollars of radar and computers (counting development) can miss something like a tank is a hard question to answer.

The word is McCain lost steering prior to the collision.  It is not clear why auxiliary steering was not promptly engaged, nor why the crew did not attempt to steer the ship using differential engine power, as warship crews ought to be trained to do.