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Originally Posted by bkreigsr
How is it that a billion-dollar, guided-missile destroyer gets rammed by a container ship four times larger, on a clear night with calm seas?
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I'm reading that the container ship was ACX Crystal is 732 ft long and the USS Fitzgerald is 505 ft. So not apples and apples but not apples and hippos either.
I'll go out on a limb and say that the Fitzgerald captain will be found to have screwed the pooch by believing things to be different than they were.