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While he’s correct in forward speed determining a faster rudder, he might be misled by boating rules, which have changed markedly in the past few decades. I’d certainly have to undergo an intensive review since husbands studies at USNA before Nam deployment.
In the past, unless there’s another vessel, or obstruction, boats approaching head on would turn to the right, or port side of the other vessel. Nowadays, with so many vessels of various sizes, weights, height, etc., the rules are more complicated. There’s special rules for boats that lose steering ability for whatever reason. I have no idea what happened to Fitzgerald but, Maquis might be jumping to conclusions with regard to a purposeful collision & Chinese plot.
It takes a long time to gather data. I assisted data gathering re: Exxon Valdez. Three years is about normal for initial report, data gathering, NTSB & finally Cold Eyes, in Navy’s case, civilian reporting.
When looking at the dot-plot, IF it’s accurate, Fitzgerald got boxed in, esp. by boat coming at her from starboard and had at least 2 more boats to contend with. The Maersk boat (from his other video) saw it coming and did a great job of getting out of the way but, it was lagging far enough away from the others to make the tight turn to starboard.
I am nowhere near the conclusion that The Chinese had anything to do with this but, who knows these days.
Here’s just a snippet of some of the rules:
Passing Rules for Power Vessels:
- When two power vessels approach each other head-on, both vessels should alter their course to pass each other on their port side.
- When two power vessels are attempting to cross, the right of way is given to the vessel on the starboard side.
- This vessel that does not have the right of way must take early action to avoid a collision.
- This vessel either needs to stop or alter course to starboard.