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10 Sailors Still Missing After U.S. Destroyer Collision With Oil Tanker

posted by Fnord666 on Monday August 21 2017, @04:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-US-Navy's-annus-horribilis dept.

takyon writes:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/world/asia/navy-ship-mccain-search-sailors.html

Search teams scrambled Monday to determine the fate of 10 missing Navy sailors after a United States destroyer collided with an oil tanker off the coast of Singapore, the second accident involving a Navy ship and a cargo vessel in recent months.

The guided-missile destroyer, the John S. McCain, was passing east of the Strait of Malacca on its way to a port visit in Singapore at 5:24 a.m. local time, before dawn broke, when it collided with the Alnic MC, a 600-foot vessel that transports oil and chemicals, the Navy said. The destroyer was damaged near the rear on its port, or left-hand, side.

Half a day after the crash, 10 sailors on the ship remained unaccounted for. Five others were injured, none with life-threatening conditions, a Navy official said. Ships with the Singapore Navy and helicopters from the assault ship America were rushing to search for survivors.

Also at Reuters.

Previously: U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 21 2017, @07:05PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 21 2017, @07:05PM (#557174)

    Out of curiosity, what benefit do you see in the added layer of obfuscation? Left/right and back/front are well defined since most would understand the back to be the side with the engine.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Nuke on Monday August 21 2017, @07:19PM (1 child)

    by Nuke (3162) on Monday August 21 2017, @07:19PM (#557185)

    Left/right and back/front are well defined since most would understand the back to be the side with the engine.

    "Side with the engine" ??? Your statement has confused me straight away.

    When you are in a ship, say in the engine room (where I have spent many hours on watch as it happens) saying "left" and "right" to anyone, as in "check the oil pump on the left" is completely ambiguous if you happen to be facing aft (the back, or blunt end for you) at the time. The "port oil pump" is unambiguous OTOH.

    • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Tuesday August 22 2017, @03:04PM

      by urza9814 (3954) on Tuesday August 22 2017, @03:04PM (#557525) Journal

      Is it really so hard for landlubbers to dispense with the explanation that "port" is on the left looking forward?

      When you are in a ship, say in the engine room...

      OK, so when people who aren't on a ship but reading this article from their living rooms are at the same time in the engine room of a ship....

      um...what?