"Now whether the watch on the Crystal was doing the course changing, or the collision prevention system was at the helm and control I don’t know for sure, but the vessel tried to avoid the Fitzgerald several times."I actually might still have the map showing this. I’ll look and see if I still have it. I got it from an inside source at the time."
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rlmorel -- Here we go again... :-(
Spend weeks drawing 'em pictures, etc -- and they still don't have a clue...
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Openurmind: Please DO post that map of yours!
Based on your comments above, you obviously have misidentified both the time and point of collision.
It wasn't until AFTER the collision that the ACX Crystal did any appreciable maneuvering at all. Up to the time of collision, Xtal was on autopilot. (RTFA...)
TXnMA
Nope... the course makes no sense even on all the maps currently available. Let common sense prevail here. The Crystal makes an impact with another vessel hard enough to shake it from stem to stern. They make an almost 90 degree hard turn to starboard still under way, make a big loop back around 180 degrees to port, then make a circle and two more zig zags underway continuing a course north east up the coast.
If they had collided with the Fitzgerald where they claim it happened at the first hard 90 degree turn to starboard they would have came full stop to at least check for damage and integrity, not continue on and zig zag so much as if it never happened. This is because it didn’t happen until AFTER all this maneuvering and they finally came back on course north east.
The Fitzgerald was not hit where it is claimed it was hit. It was hit after it played cat and mouse with the Crystal causing it to change course several times.
Let me see if I still have the chart my source gave me. Like I say... He was tracking BOTH in real time.