Berthing Compartment News Today

Coast guard required the ship owner to have this roaming watchman. and thats to avoid ha happened here complicate with the inability of people to escape. >> in addition to this key detail, the ntsb inspected a similar boat owned by the same company and so she was, quote, taken aback by the size and location of that emergency hatch where presumably these passengers, if they had woken up could have made their way out of. and, two, that the smoke alarms were not connected through the boat. >> exact...

Ship and killed seven navy sailors. they drowned in the berthing compartment which is where they sleep. it was impacted by the cargo ship and seven did not make it out. now another collision at sea at 6:30 a.m. japan time. japan is about 12 hours ahead of u.s. eastern time. theres another guided missile destroyer that combined with data collided with a merchant ship. >> this was named after john s mccain senior and junior, both album rolls in the united states navy. they were the grandfather and...

The pentagon? any sense for how this happened? >> a lot of bewilderment. this doesnt happen. the navy doesnt have these kinds of catastrophic collisions at sea. what were learning is how catastrophic it really was. think of what this crew was facing. it was dark. they had been in a collision. water is pouring into the ship, both beneath the waterline. they have damage above ground. the container ship and the navy ship hit exactly where the berthing compartment was and where communications were. ...