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>Whoever is the officer of the deck at the time is responsible. That's what the position means, if it means anything at all. The OOD is the very definition of
by hudibras 8y ago
>Whoever is the officer of the deck at the time is responsible. That's what the position means, if it means anything at all.
The OOD is the very definition of a "You Had ONE Job!" job, and that one job is "Don't run into other ships or the land."
- Stranger43 8y agoExcept that the systematic aversion to allow any delegation of power that haunts all western military forces, means that the reality is that the OOD ends up with dozens of contradictory tasks all of highest priority. On a merchent marine ship traveling that kind of waters there would be a team of 2-3 people with the most junior seaman present having more experience at see then the average junior US Navy officer, and no bullshit about having to coordinate with combat centers or signal intelligence in addition to having to navigate. Where as it sounds like several dozen of mostly inexperienced seaman was involved on the Fitzgerald incident.