Re: Well if the US ships want the Chinese to keep out of the way
"they may have learnt how to do handbrake turns with a destroyer to scam Lloyd's List."
back full port, ahead full starboard. similar idea to a handbrake turn.
If the ship has multiple screws, even if the rudder is immobilized due to a mechanical problem, you can still attempt to steer it with the engines [though the effect isn't quite as good].
Methinks they need to run more drills on operation casualties *like* loss of steeering, work out the bugs, and get some kinds of procedures in place to avoid situations like that one.
Normally a collision is due to a mistake on the part of the officer of the deck. But with "that much information" in play in a busy channel, maybe it's just not humanly possible for one person to keep track of it all...
(holy @#$% it's a big fat tanker, how the hell did we NOT see that coming?)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
