In America, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently published their Safer Seas Digest 2020, a record of the 42 major incidents they investigated during t ..
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NTSB 2020 Digest of Maritime Accident Investigations
The following is the National Transportation Safety Board recently released Safer Seas Digest 2020 that summarizes major maritime accidents and lessons learned including the 2017 collision of USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) off Japan and the collision of then-under construction USS Delbert Black (DDG-119).
From the report
The 42 marine accidents included in Safer Seas Digest 2020 involved contact with fixed objects, sinkings, collisions, fires, explosions, floodings, groundings, and capsizings. The...
https://news.usni.org/2021/08/25/ntsb-2020-digest-of-maritime-accident-investigations
NTSB Publishes Safer Seas Digest 2020
The National Transportation Safety Board released Tuesday the Safer Seas Digest 2020, a compendium of the NTSB’s maritime accident investigations involving loss of life, injuries and significant property damage completed in 2020. This…
Report slams Surface Navy culture, leadership
A report commissioned by four members of Congress in the wake of several high-profile Navy losses of lives and warships makes disturbing reading. Entitled “A Report on the Fighting Culture of the United States Navy’s Surface Fleet,” it was commissioned by, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) along with Representatives Jim Banks (R-Ind.), Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), and Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.).
“The findings of this report are very concerning,” said Cotton. “Our sailors are too often deprived of the training...
https://www.marinelog.com/news/report-slams-surface-navy-culture-leadership/
Watch: U.S. Navy’s New Supercarrier Undergoes Bolt-Rattling Shock Trials
The U.S. Navy’s new $13 billion aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) has completed its first scheduled “shock trials” in the Atlantic Ocean on Friday. The U.S. Navy’s…
‘Baffling’ Course Change Causes Navy Ship Containership Collision
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released its final report into the collision between the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Fitzgerald and the boxship ACX Crystal on June 17, 2017.
The accident badly damaged Fitzgerald and killed seven members of her crew.
The Incident- On June 16, USS Fitzgerald left her homeport of Yokosuka, Japan, bound for the Philippines.
- In the early hours of the following morning, Fitzgerald was traveling southbound at about 22 knots in the bay of Sagami Nada,...
https://mfame.guru/baffling-course-change-causes-navy-ship-and-containership-collision/
NTSB issues final report on deadly USS Fitzgerald collision
In its just released final report on its investigation of the June 17, 2017 collision between the USS Fitzgerald and the containership ACX Crystal, the National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of collision was the failure of the Fitzgerald’s bridge team to take early and substantial action to avoid collision as the give-way vessel in a crossing situation.
Contributing was ineffective communication and cooperation among the Fitzgerald crew on the bridge and in the...
NTSB Issues 4 Safety Recommendations Based On Investigation Of USS Fitzgerald Collision
The National Transportation Safety Board issued Thursday four safety recommendations in its final report on the agency’s investigation of the fatal, June 17, 2017, collision between the USS Fitzgerald and the container ship ACX Crystal.
Image Credits: US Navy
The collision happened shortly after the 504.5 foot-long, US Navy destroyer Fitzgerald, with 315 people on board, departed its homeport of Yokosuka, Japan, bound for the Philippines. The Fitzgerald was traveling southbound at about 22 knots...
NTSB: ‘Unexplained’ Course Change Was ‘A Critical Error’ in Fatal USS Fitzgerald Collision
Undated photo of USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) pierside in Japan shortly after accident. US Navy Photo
Federal investigators highlighted an “unexplained course change” by a U.S. guided-missile destroyer as “a critical error” that put the warship on the path to the fatal 2017 collision that would kill seven sailors, according to a new report released Thursday.
Eight minutes before the collision with the merchant ship ACX Crystal in a busy shipping lane off the coast of Japan, USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) –...
NTSB Issues Safety Recommendations in USS Fitzgerald Collision Investigation
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has issued four safety recommendations in its final report in the agency’s investigation into the 2017 collision between the guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald and a merchant containership. The collision occurred shortly after the 504.5 foot-long,...