Just as an anecdote, I was recently taking the ferry (as a passenger mind you), and the ferry encountered a Burke-class DD (which would be slightly unusual arou

Just as an anecdote, I was recently taking the ferry (as a passenger mind you), and the ferry encountered a Burke-class DD (which would be slightly unusual around here, but I later learned it was on its way to a friendly visit to my country). The Burke was ahead of us, to starboard, going in roughly the same direction, although slightly converging (lets say around 45 deg difference in heading, maybe?). When I got up, it was at maybe 1 nm distance, at 2 o'clock. So I go to another area of the ship, and the next time I look out of the window the Burke is on our port side at maybe 300m distance. Which, if my interpretation of events is correct, means the Burke cut in front of the ferry at frickin close range. For no effing reason whatsoever, considering there was plenty of open sea around both ships. This is the kind of macho BS attitude that gets people killed. Sure, nothing happened, but what if they would have had some kind of machinery or bridge communication malfunction? The ferry would have plowed the Burke in half.