“Do our ship’s watch officers still have a set of eyes and binoculars.”
Wondered the same thing. How does one miss something like this
It baffles me too. When I was in the Navy, there were a number of eyes on the bridge and in CIC while underway and at anytime during the day and night. OOD, JOOD, BMOW, Quartermaster, helmsman, lee helmsman, JL phonetalker, forward lookout, aft lookout and the crew in CIC.