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Let’s Drift. Fitzgerald Again As I intimated in my introduction, there is not much new to be found in this report. The basic story is the same: The Fitzgerald, steaming near Tokyo in heavy traffic, failed to maneuver to avoid a collision with the container ship ACX Crystal. The officer of the deck failed to properly track the Crystal, as well as several other close-call contacts that evening, and violated the Commanding Officer’s standing orders by not waking him when there was doubt about the Crystal’s course. Further, the OOD did not coordinate with CIC on the surface picture, but CIC...