Nukes! Nukes everywhere …
>Anons, anyone know WTF this was all about?
Anon encountered certificate errors at approximately that time. Just a guess. Board drama remains at normal background level.
Consider this when encountering any "foreign captain must be nefarious" stories:
What a pilot does . . .
By state law, every ship that enters Maryland waters must have a state-licensed pilot at its helm, steering massive ships from the sea into port. That means that every vessel bound for Baltimore must be met by a pilot at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, where she or he takes command of the ship. Throughout this voyage, pilots steer their ships through a 50-foot deep channel, with sometimes as little clearance between the bottom of the ship and the bottom of the Bay as three feet. Once the ship reaches the Key Bridge, a docking pilot takes over the helm and brings the ship into its berth in the Port.
Potential pilots must graduate from one of five maritime academies in this country, earning either a bachelors or masters degree. In Maryland, they must maintain a five-year pilot’s license administered by the state.
https://port.thinkport.org/workingattheport/explore/pilots.asp
The United States Supreme Court summarized the Pilot's job in an 1851 opinion:
“A Pilot, so far as respects the navigation of the vessel in that part of the voyage which is his pilotage ground, is the temporary master charged with the safety of the vessel and cargo, and of the lives of those on board, and instructed with the command of the crew.”
In addition, state-licensed Pilots maneuver the ships when docking, casting off from the pier, or otherwise moving anywhere in Maryland waters. The role of the Pilot is critical for many reasons.
https://www.mdpilots.com/what-is-a-pilot
But muh captain is from Ukraine. Kek.
Maxwell and Chavez ran Isla La Orchila.
>They have been hacking Navy ships
Eight minutes before the collision with the merchant ship ACX Crystal in a busy shipping lane off the coast of Japan, USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) – traveling at 20 knots – adjusted its course 10 degrees, setting the stage for the collision, according to the National Transportation Safety Board report.
“This course change proved to be a critical error, and investigators were unable to determine the reason for it,” reads the report.
“The study found that if the Fitzgerald had not made the course change from 190° to 200° 8 minutes before the collision, the destroyer would have passed ahead of the ACX Crystal with a [closest point of approach] of about 1,000 yards, or about a 1/2 nautical mile. Therefore, the NTSB concludes that the Fitzgerald’s unexplained small course change to starboard minutes before the collision put the vessel on a collision course with the ACX Crystal.”
https://news.usni.org/2020/09/03/ntsb-unexplained-course-change-was-a-critical-error-in-fatal-uss-fitzgerald-collision
On August 21, 2017, the US Navy destroyer John S McCain was overtaking the Liberian-flagged tanker Alnic MC while both vessels were transiting the westbound lane in the Middle Channel passage of the Singapore Strait Traffic Separation Scheme. The destroyer crew had a perceived loss of steering, and, while the crew attempted to regain control of the vessel, the John S McCain unintentionally turned to port into the path of the Alnic MC. At 0524, the vessels collided. As a result of the collision, 10 John S McCain sailors died, 48 were injured, and the vessel sustained over $100 million in damage. No one was injured on the Alnic MC, and the vessel sustained about $225,000 in damage.
https://news.usni.org/2019/08/06/ntsb-accident-report-on-fatal-2017-uss-john-mccain-collision-off-singapore