Yes, I read that Best Friend. Even from 12 miles up, or whatever the perspective is of the google maps satellite shot, you can tell the course was...well, at least curious.
Could it be he was trying to allign with the prevailing curents, to be parallel to the flow?
Sailaway, you'd make a helluva expert witness. At least, in a Red State. For the Defense. I jest. Sort of.
Interesting resume. My friend, the politically challenged one, says that tug boats accompany the ships to address the kinds of very steering failures you cite.
Can't have that boat swinging hard Right, in the Bay, now. That just wouldn't flow.
Re: the spill. The two hours to containment, or at least, to substantive containment, is something of a bummer:
"But it wasn't until 10:39 a.m., more than two hours after the Cosco Busan hit the bridge, that full-scale containment operations began, the Coast Guard log shows."
I admire the Coast Guard. They delivered, singularly, in NOLA. We'll see how this unfolds.
I was just wondering how much space (and this is probably a bad idea, I'll pre-empt you) 2500' of skimmer tube would take up. It almost seems like the ship, or every ship, would be in the best position to throw the first life rings overboard, So to speak. Of course, not when conditions don't enable that, and that would be most of the time. (Like the Russian sea spill)
(I mean, the horse has left the barn, and a better use of energies is working out better methodologies to reduce the occurance of this sort of thing in the first place)
I've gotta run. The FBI is at the door. They've been monitoring domestically, and boy, are they unhappy.
Remember: it's better to be right than Happy!