US Destroyer rammed by oil tanker

[BFHammer]

USS Porter Collides With Oil Tanker in Persian Gulf - Yahoo! News

The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Porter suffered significant damage after colliding with an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday.

The USS Porter was passing through the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf.

The Japanese-owned, Panamanian flagged tanker M/V Otowasan was coming the other way, just entering the Strait of Hormuz, and the two crashed into one another.

The shipping lanes are very narrow, about two miles wide in each lane. The crash left a hole in the side of the destroyer but no injuries were reported.

The damage is all above the water-line, so there is no danger that the ship will sink, but likely sustained water damage because the fire control system would have activated.

The USS Porter is headed to a port a called Jebel Ali in the UAE.

How the hell do you manage to not see a OIL TANKER bearing down on you???

 

[maniclion]

Entering the Straits of Hormuz was the most frightening experience of my Navy life. It was like the nighttime bridge scene in Apocalypse Now mixed with the Reever scene in Serenity the movie. We were creeping along at pre-dawn w/ 2 men on mine watch on the bow, Iranians screaming over the International Port pilot channel about American pigs, infidels and Filipino Monkeys, and other Allahu Akbar shit. We had to pass close to the Iranian side and we could see men on the cliffs with AK's watching us. To top it all of sandstorms turned the rising sun red, the water was dead calm, except for the writhing of mating seasnakes. At first I thought it was rippling water, but as the light grew you could make them out and there were thousands of them right at the surface twisting and slithering over each other.... Most fucking surreal crazy shit I'd experienced...

 

[LAM]

the straight of hormuz is huge compared to some. the naval shipyard in Philly is 80+ miles up the Delaware River, 6+ hour sea & anchor detail. simply amazing the number of carriers that have been up and down that narrow ass river. having been through it myself I can't possibly see how that collision could have occurred with a proper sea & anchor detail in hormuz.

http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/~cannon/tr8203nc/philadel/graphics/fig17-1.gif

 

[secdrl]

There wil be some sanctions/punishments given out for this "misunderstanding." Circumstances like this are inexcusable.

 

[maniclion]

I saw a USNS collide with a LHD before during an Underway Replenishment aka UnRep, which happens quite often, but that's because the 2 ships are only a couple hundred or less feet apart cruising at a good pace while fuel lines are attached. Sometimes in rough water. There is no reason for 2 ships to collide while navigating the straits though, unless everyone was too busy looking at Iran with binoculars like we were when we entered...

 

[LAM]

unreps never looked like any fun, always stayed below deck when that stuff was going on.

 

[BFHammer]

That's why I picked aircrew and a bird too big to float on boats. P-3's forever!!

 

[maniclion]

That's why I picked aircrew and a bird too big to float on boats. P-3's forever!!

Ships

 

[ctr10]

The captain of that Destroyer will never make admiral