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Re: Navy crews at fault in fatal collisions, investigations find
From: Bob Goethe
Date: 2017 Nov 1, 09:05 -0700
From: Bob Goethe
Date: 2017 Nov 1, 09:05 -0700
>>As the Fitzgerald sailed into the busy waters near Japan it cut through a channel with specific rules for navigation known as a a traffic separation scheme. The ship did not have the navigation patterns on its charts and repeatedly drove across the bow of ships exiting the channel.<<
Wow...I have never even SEEN a chart, either electronic or paper, that failed to indicate traffic separation schemes.
Bob
