Adjunct Professor Lawrence Brennan was quoted in Navy Times about the USS Fitzgerald collision off the Japanese coast last week that killed seven sailors.
“It’s virtually unprecedented,” said Lawrence Brennan, a retired Navy captain who now teaches admiralty law at Fordham University’s School of Law.
“For two large ships, both operated by world-class shipping companies, to be in waters where they should expect traffic and not see each other, boggles the imagination,” Brennan said.
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The collision, coupled with the skipper not being on the bridge and some of the crew still in the berthing compartments, raises the possibility that the Fitzgerald never saw the Crystal coming, Brennan said.