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Originally Posted by ossiblue

Similar reporting by CNN^^.

However, there is a key discrepancy between what the Japanese coast guard is reporting and what the U.S. Navy is reporting. The Japanese, after interviews with the ACX crew, revised their estimated time of the collision to 1:30 am. This would put the ship at the location well before the odd, 180* maneuvers that put the ship back at the scene. The U.S. Navy still insists the collision happened at 2:20 am, as first reported, after the ACX made it's strange course changes. Two clearly important differences. Japan is looking to find some electronic recording device that could confirm which version is correct.

It will be interesting to know which version of the collision time is accurate. On the surface, the 1:30 version is more logical as there is an indication the ACX made a sharp right turn at that time which would be consistent with attempting to avoid a collision. A 2:20 time means the ACX made the unusual course change, headed toward the destroyer, and by the course track, collided with it. However, if that happened, the destroyer should have been hit on the port side instead of starboard, if we are to believe the tracking map of the Japanese coast guard. Reports, to date, have the destroyer heading in a southerly direction at collision time. A 2:20 collision time would have the ACX heading in a southwesterly direction, putting it on the port side of the destroyer. A 1:30 collision time, according to the radar map of the Japanese, has the ACX heading in a northeasterly direction, placing it on the starboard side of the destroyer where the damage was rendered.

We allow them to steer a ship when they can't even read a clock?