Two high tech guided missile destroyers charged with protecting the fleet from incoming missiles somehow failed to avoid collision with two slow-speed commercial vessels. Tragically, seventeen sailors died in the collisions. Some immediately blamed cyber-hacking, although a Navy investigation has turned up zero evidence to support the claim. Now, the focus is on more prosaic and avoidable causes — inadequate training, sleep deprivation, and poor ship management.
The Navy Times put it simply — “Maybe today’s Navy is just not very good at driving ships.” They write: “The problem is years in the making. Now, the current generation of officers rising into command-level billets lacks the skills, training, education, and experience needed to operate effectively and safely at sea, according to current and former officers interviewed by Navy Times.”
The arrogance is as impressive as the yachts themselves. Rather than paying for dockage, in recent years, billionaire Russian oligarchs have taken to anchoring their yachts in the public anchorage in front of the Statue of Liberty while in New York Harbor. This summer, 
For those in and around New York harbor, the 
Following the recent collision of a tanker with the US Navy destroyer USS 
In the second major collision between a US Navy destroyer and a merchant ship in the last three months, the USS 
The Dutch three-masted topsail schooner 
For several years now, 
In a bizarre and developing story, the Danish inventor 
Updating a previous post for Throw-Back Thursday. Two years ago,