U.S. destroyer collides with oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz

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Navy: U.S. destroyer collides with oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz - CNN.com
The U.S. Navy said its guided missile destroyer collided with a Japanese-owned oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz early Sunday morning.

No one was injured in the collision that occurred about 1 a.m. local time when the USS Porter collided with the Panamanian-flagged bulk oil tanker M/V Otowasan, the Navy said in a statement.

The Navy did not provide details about the collision, saying only the accident was not related to combat. It said the incident is under investigation.

Damage to the USS Porter was being evaluated, "but the ship is able to operate under its own power," the statement said.

The Navy did not say what, if any, damage the Otowasan incurred in the collision.
 

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What is happening to USN... crashing into a tanker in open water is worse than beaching your ship like Chinese.
 

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It could not be a collision but the ships have just kissed each other. Had it been a collision the destroyer would be at the bottom of the ocean.
 

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USS Porter After the Collision with Oil Tanker

[video=youtube_share;KPuJV-UiqdM]http://youtu.be/KPuJV-UiqdM[/video]
 

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Nothing surprising.

Too much of traffic in a narrow stretch of water.
 

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It could not be a collision but the ships have just kissed each other. Had it been a collision the destroyer would be at the bottom of the ocean.
that looks like a mighty kiss

 

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Looks like the tanker rammed that destroyer (it has a triangular impression on the most damaged part suggestive of frontally being hit by a bow).... But of course the destroyer could have avoided it early on had its crew paid more attention to the traffic.

Anyway, its amazing how thin that destroyer's hull is. It looks like a tin can ripped open...
 
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that looks like a mighty kiss

If you compare the huge bulk of these crude carriers to that of a destroyer and then try to work out the effect of a frontal impact at a speed of 5 Knots.
By the looks of it the Destroyer took a hard turn and could not avoid grazing the tanker. The scraping marks can be seen running down the length of the Destroyer.
 

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good for the Tanker crew they navy ship was not Italian, or they would have killed the crew, sink the ship and would have pleaded terrorist attack.
Btw so much for the high tech US navy ship.
 

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