A quick google search turns up two container ships colliding in Malaysia this year, and another collision a few years ago in the suez canal. I feel confident a

A quick google search turns up two container ships colliding in Malaysia this year, and another collision a few years ago in the suez canal. I feel confident a more thorough search would turn up more instances. I'm not saying the destroyer couldn't have been doing something stupid, though the angle of impact suggests otherwise to me; but it seems to me a lot of speculation goes the way it does simply because of people's feelings about the military.