Nero
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Also a credible scenario. A supply vessel hit a drilling rig I was on last year. That was human factor related too.One of the ships I worked on hit an oil platform despite there being more than a full complement on the bridge and a raft of protocols in place for approaching platforms.
Listening to the black box recording it was clear that those involved didn't follow the rules, weren't fully concentrating on what they were doing and by the time they realised their mistakes were incapable of correcting them. When the guy who was actually manoeuvring the ship realised a collision was imminent he froze and just kept saying "oh f*ck, oh f*ck" until the ship hit.