Indicate to other ships and inform them that you are not under command, you're unable to steer and have a very difficult time. let's not forget even when you lose ability to steer the ship you still have engines that you can use. nonetheless, they'll indicate either by flags on the vessel or sounding six warning blasts that indicate danger to other ships plus they've got radios, they'll be in communication. typically channel 16 on bridge to bridge to inform other ships they have a problem and to let them know that they need to give the john s mccain or any ship with a casualty like this a wide...