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posted by takyon on Saturday June 17 2017, @01:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the 7th-fleet's-bad-week dept.

A U.S. Navy vessel has collided with a container vessel southwest of Yokosuka, Japan:

Seven U.S. sailors are unaccounted for after a Navy destroyer collided with a merchant ship southwest of Yokosuka, Japan, early Saturday local time, a U.S. official and the Navy said.

Some flooding was reported aboard the USS Fitzgerald, a 505-foot destroyer, after the collision with a Philippine container vessel at approximately 2:30 a.m. Saturday local time (1:30 p.m. ET Friday), about 56 nautical miles of Yokosuka, the U.S. 7th Fleet said.

Also at Reuters.

mrpg wrote in with another story about a U.S. Navy sailor who was reported missing and presumed dead after a search by the Navy, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, and Japan's Coast Guard. He was found days later, hiding in one of the engine rooms.


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  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by aristarchus on Saturday June 17 2017, @06:21AM (3 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday June 17 2017, @06:21AM (#526844) Journal

    Breaking news? Breaking ship. But pushed to the head of the queue ahead of all the fine articles submitted by Soylentils? Who is the editorial voice of SN? Please reveal yourself, and make it official, so we know what we are up against when we submit news that matters, as opposed to yet another US Navy "error of navigation". Please?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 17 2017, @01:19PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 17 2017, @01:19PM (#526953)

    I welcome a break from the Trump or large Silicon Valley company bullshit posts.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 17 2017, @03:22PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 17 2017, @03:22PM (#527001)

      Just you watch, in the end it will turn out that the collision occurred because Trump ordered the Navy to never yield, and the cargo ship didn't change course because the Captain was on Facebook.

  • (Score: 2) by n1 on Saturday June 17 2017, @10:21PM

    by n1 (993) on Saturday June 17 2017, @10:21PM (#527166) Journal

    It's quite obvious this story was put up by takyon. I was the second editor and approved this story. This story was put in IN ADDITION to our regular scheduled stories. The next story came out 40 minutes after, usually stories are 90 minutes apart, 120 minutes or so on weekends.

    You are up against no-one when you submit a story, we all have different ideas as to what constitutes a good story.

    No one has priority or can overrule another editor, it's as democratic as you can get. Takyon primarily submits stories but also drops in breaking news when it's applicable. No one gets special treatment, even as a senior editor, i've had stories rejected for subjective reasons.

    There is no queue in submissions, each editor picks what they think is the most interesting or relevant story to the community. In addition to that we try to strike a balance to create a variety of topics.

    There is no editorial voice, sometimes we agree on things, sometimes we disagree, no one has veto power on what gets published. Sometimes there isn't another editor around to get a second opinion on a story and we just do what we think is best.

    But i'll say again, this story did not take priority over any other submission, it was run in addition to normal submissions.