KJakker

After I have some time to look through all of my photos and do some edits I will put up a thread in photo forum.

Thanks for the info.

Erik, I noticed something odd. Before the update my post count was, I think, 905 yet my post yesterday is number 1006. It looks to me like the site jumped my post count up by 100 post. Is this due to a change in how the software tabulates posts or is something wrong?

Note that there are also some LOD files in ObjectData009.CAT as well.

All of this talk of collision at sea has reminded me of two other collisions. The October 2, 1942 collision of RMS Queen Mary with HMS Curacoa, my grandfather was aboard Queen Mary at the time, and the July 25th, 1956 collision of MS Stockholm with SS Andrea Doria. I wonder if one of the contributing factors in the USS Fitzgerald-ACX Crystal collision was a misunderstanding of what the radar was showing the watch officers? It has been years since I read anything about the Andrea Doria but I seem to recall reading that the radar display on Andrea Doria's bridge was set to a short range mode but the officer in charge of navigation thought it was in the long range mode and so believed that he had more maneuvering room than actually existed. All it would take is a similar mistake for the watch on the USS Fitzgerald to think they had sufficient sea room and time to pass in front of the ACX Crystal.

http://www.navweaps.com/ For naval weapons.

I thought people would find these videos interesting.