Posted on 11/24/2018 6:18:05 PM PST by george76
Returning from the NATO Trident Juncture strategic exercise, a Norwegian frigate collided with a tanker. Many are speculating that gender politics sunk the vessel.
The collision with the KNM Helge Ingstad left a big enough hole in the starboard side of the frigate for the warship to take on water. The crew has been forced to abandon the vessel, The Barents Observer reported. On Tuesday morning, most of the navy ship was already under water.
The warship, one of Norway’s five top modern frigates.. a mystery why the well-equipped warship couldn’t avoid colliding with the 250 meters long oil tanker just north of the oil terminal.
The weather was excellent while the waters in the area offer maritime traffic real-time shipping control. Also, there was radio-contact between the vessels when the accident happened.
The nagging question remains as to why the frigate, with all its radars and sensors, could not change course to avoid the collision.
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Judging by the sound record and expert statements, the crew made crude, almost incomprehensible human errors, making them look like amateurs.
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In the Norwegian magazine.. stated that “Four out of five navigators on frigate KNM Helge Ingstad are women“.
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Norwegians boast about gender equality in their Navy, they also explained that they are looking into every department of their Armed Forces to apply the same formula.
Norway’s Ministry of Defence has not yet reported whether they plan to lift the frigate from where it sunk to repair the vessel.
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Not only did the demise of the uninsured frigate cost the Norwegian Navy its entire annual budget, but the country lost millions with several oil and gas fields which were temporarily shut down due to the accident.
Since the oil companies pay 78 percent taxes to the state
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Tony Curtis made some good movies.
They’re buying oars and sails again.
Been ages since I have seen it.
An intentional goof in post?
Upper body workouts.
“five top modern frigates”
What is a ‘top modern’?
I don’t think so. I think the kid blew his line.
Do yourself a BIG favor sometime and see a movie I never even knew existed til about a year ago: “Who Was That Lady?” With Dean Martin and Tony Curtis.
Wikipedia has the plot: Ann Wilson (Janet Leigh) catches her straight-laced husband, Columbia University Assistant Professor of Chemistry David Wilson (Tony Curtis), kissing another woman. From David’s perspective, he was the one being kissed innocently, the woman in question being a grateful transfer student. However, Ann wants a divorce. On the advice of David’s friend, TV writer Michael Haney (Dean Martin), David tries to convince Ann that he is really an FBI agent, the kiss all in the name of national security. Ann falls for it, but is so impressed with what her husband does for a living that she can’t keep quiet about it. Michael is so impressed with Ann’s gullibility and patriotic urging of her husband Dave to do more “secret missions” that Michael sets up a date with two blondes with the promise of spending a weekend together with them. The indiscretions cause a number of complications, including some with the real FBI, the CIA and hostile foreign secret agents.
Like I say, I never even knew a Dean Martin-Tony Curtis movie existed. They’re both in top form, and even James Whitmore is funny. It just keeps spiraling WAY out there. Kind of an unknown gem.
Deborah Dempsey, the first graduate of a US maritime academy, captained a Lykes Line freighter for many years.
She just retired as a Columbia River bar pilot. She
had no trouble communicating her orders to anyone.
I believe several key people in both US Navy collisions were also female and they escaped with minimal punishment.
That is one I don’t know either and I have seen many obscure movies.
Sounds like one I would like very much.
“Since the oil companies pay 78 percent taxes to the state”
Yep. walked off a job in Norwegian waters one time because of that.
Don’t worry. They’ll find a way to blame it on the odd man out.
Some things need to be relearned before you can advance.
This is what happens when gender takes priority over merit.
No, that women have no sense of direction.
It was the navigators who were mostly women, no comment as to the sex (NOT "gender" - gender is a grammatical term!) of the pilot.
The ship, before:
(If you have triskaidekaphobia don’t click on the link!)
(just kidding - wow what a screw-up)
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