Does anyone else feel like the ships electronics are being hacked ? When I was meditating I saw a man in an old metal diving suit throw an old lamp with frayed wires over the side into the water while still plugged in. I am not sure what it meant
I'm not a professional intuitive but it looks really suspicious when they've had 4 accidents since January in the same area of the pacific ocean. Maybe even the military staff are involved too because it just seems too coincidental that all these incidents have occurred.
I've been reading this forum for most quite awhile so thank you to all who post here. While I am not intuitive, I do have some small knowledge of navigation through sailing. While it does appear suspicious, it may also be carelessness or lax discipline. Navy ships often are under "silent running" which means they do not show up on navigation systems such as AIS (Automatic Identification System) that all commercial vessels are required to have on board. Many pleasure craft, such as our sailboat also carry full AIS, and, as we live in the Puget Sound and sail the Sailish sea, we have encountered both US and Canadian ships that don't show up on AIS. And, if these ships are made with stealth technology they may not show up on a freighter's radar, or the ship is using its radar jamming. In which case, it is on the naval officers and crew running the nav to be on the look out for other ships. I do find it odd, however, this many incidents happening so close together.
The explanation might be far simpler - sleep deprivation. http://taskandpurpose.com/fitzgerald-mccain-sleep-deprivation-navy/
Thank you, Jeanne!
The explanation might be far simpler - sleep deprivation. http://taskandpurpose.com/fitzgerald-mccain-sleep-deprivation-navy/
I could possibly accept that explanation if it was just a small crew of say, 3 people driving a ship. But we're talking about big ships that have hundreds of crew. The chances of 200+ crew all being too tired to notice a oil tanker heading your way is nil. Something is just not adding up here.
The bridge crew driving the ship probably did number about three. The standard Navy watch system is a five hour shift followed by ten hours "off" where you have to attend to a number of other responsibilities. If you stood watch from midnight to five am. you would be back on duty at three o'clock that same afternoon. Add the increased tempo of operations and days at sea and you have a recipe for mistakes. Remember that this is just the latest in a string of accidents that include multiple collisions and groundings.
What I'm referring to is the total number of crew on the ship. Surely someone would have been awake enough to notice that there is a freaking oil tanker on a collision course and notified the captain. I mean even if I was just the ship cook and I look out the porthole and see an oil tanker I'd sound an alarm.
Just for reference check out this article: http://ktla.com/2017/08/20/us-navy-destroyer-collides-with-merchant-ship-near-singapore/
Note this quote
“How does a state-of-the-art Navy destroyer equipped with multiple radar systems and communications gear with a full bridge watch not see, detect and evade a 30,000 ton slow-moving (10 knots) behemoth?” Francona asked.
It just seems odd to me that a large ship with all that crew and technology still managed to crash into a ship that was easily avoidable.
Plus the article lists 3 past incidents that all occurred in the pacific area:
On June 17, the USS Fitzgerald collided with a container ship off the coast of Japan. That collision resulted in the deaths of seven US sailors. It will be transported to the US for repairs.
On May 9, the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain was struck by a small fishing boat off the Korean Peninsula.
And in late January, the guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam ran aground while trying to anchor in Tokyo Bay.
All four of the US warships are equipped with the Aegis missile defense system.
Do you notice that they all are equipped with the Aegis missile defense system specifically designed for N Korea? Plus why haven't similar incidents occurred in the middle east? They've defended against potential threats from Iranian ships. Source: http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/25/politics/navy-ship-iran-arabian-gulf/index.html
If you think about it, they were aware enough to notice a small ship was heading toward their ship and they managed to fire warning shots. How can they not notice a freaking oil tanker twice the size of the navy ship?
It just makes me wonder.
The Aegis was originally developed during the cold war to counter Russian threats and has been upgraded numerous times. There have been incidents in the Middle East such as the two patrol craft that wandered into Iranian territorial water and got themselves captured. See the article that I linked to in my earlier post - these crews are going on four hours sleep. I couldn't do it.
(Warships don't have portholes btw.)
According to a navy friend of mine, since January of this year the US fleet ships in Asian waters were ordered to go black, meaning that 24/7 their "invisibility" defensive scramble electronics are now active until further notice. Other ships in the same heavily trafficked waters can't detect US ships as a result. So a bunch of non-US ships are running virtually blind in terms of where our Naval vessels are located.
He also said the standard monitoring protocols haven't been increased to offset this, mainly because when we monitor for other traffic, we can then be located (ping-back).
In high-traffic sea lanes, that's a recipe for disaster.
While I agree with you Doc, I can not help feel that it is going to weaken the US military. Now The White House has directed Defense Department to stop allowing transgender people to join the military. It makes me wonder, if women will be stop from joining the military too. While North Korea is very big issue, I feel the military is spread thin because of too many involvements around the world in other countries.
Just did a whole post on the transgender ban. He just signed it, and the ACLU is taking him to court over it.
Kim K. brings up a good point, wondering who's next on the military chopping block. This does nothing but weaken our military, and all to bring back a time period that's not possible anymore. Taking active personnel out and refusing to sign up able volunteers isn't going to do the Naval ships any good. Only lessens personnel watching the ships.
While there are other good points as to why this happens, given our current technology, it wouldn't surprise me if the next war was done by cyber means. This could do it.
Doc, ran across this explanation on how the whole "going dark" aspect makes collisions with US warships more likely. I had not heard that before.
I read in that article saying that both accidents occurred during nighttime. That is starting to make sense. It's hard for a commercial ship to avoid a warship if they can't even see it and doesn't show up in the AIS system either. It's looking like the US Navy simply screwed up and did not account for this with extra scanning methods.