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Originally Posted by greglepore
It makes no difference who is operating the ship if the powerplant fails at low speed. No rudder steerage below a specific minimum speed, you steer with prop differential or tugs below that design speed. So if the powerplant is disabled below say 5 knots or whatever, you're adrift. And at even 3-4 knots a container ship goes a LONG way with just residual drift and packs a lot of energy if it hits something.
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I made the pilot response to counter that it was "maybe the same captain ".
They had power outages for a currently unknown reason. The ships pilots/crew attempted to minimize damage by taking several evasive actions. They knew that serious trouble was most likely unstoppable so they called in the warning. Law enforcement acted quickly and stopped traffic which minimized the number of deaths.