The Japanese tuna boat incident was a mistake that could have been avoided, but at least precautions were taken, as sloppy as they were. They were doing an emer

The Japanese tuna boat incident was a mistake that could have been avoided, but at least precautions were taken, as sloppy as they were. They were doing an emergency surfacing exercise and did surface to check for ships before doing it. The chance of randomly hitting a tiny boat when surfacing are astonishingly slim. It was a bunch of factors, but mostly bad luck. I doubt a captain could hit a boat like that on purpose of they tried, there's just too many variables. As a surface ship ramming into a boat is entirely avoidable. Those things aren't invisible, and those destroyers have ridiculous amounts of sensor equipment, active and passive.