Some really distressing details in here, including that the CO was asleep while the ship was transiting in a three-mile-wide channel and sees no problem with that. Gotta say, disappointing https://twitter.com/defense_news/status/1194301554343501824

In any normal circumstance, if you are transiting a channel that's three miles wide, prudence would demand setting some kind of navigation detail, even if its not a busy sea lane. That didn't happen. And the watchstanders were not keyed in at all.

The OOD was convinced Sola TS was a stationary object next to the terminal, but could see on the radar screen that it was separating from the pier. Still, when Sola told the OOD to turn to starboard to avoid it, the OOD though that action would run into the "stationary object."

But of course that object was Sola TS, and the bridge watch team was a complete clown show. Also distracted because the OOD was training a JOOD, who was doing most of the navigating. I hope that JOOD forgot everything he/she was taught by that OOD.

A beautiful ship, wrecked because of a distracted, under-trained watch team and a sleeping CO. Thank God no sailors were seriously hurt, more than a minor miracle.