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Re: Norwegian Colregs
The story in Norway is that Helge Ingstad entered the separation scheme at around 17kts, had its AIS switched to silent which hampered VTS identifying the ship for some moments, then repeatedly failed to respond to a number of increasingly panicked calls from both VTS and the Sola’s pilots, collided with the Sola, had its steering gear destroyed, then mostly drifted onto rocks (poss with the help of some non-directionally stable power).
If that’s right, wow!
Mechanical issues? But that said I don't remember a VTS system that doesnt check that the ship is serviceable with regards to steering, engine controls functional and masters on the bridge and it's being hand steered, so probably unlikely.
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The story in Norway is that Helge Ingstad entered the separation scheme at around 17kts, had its AIS switched to silent which hampered VTS identifying the ship for some moments, then repeatedly failed to respond to a number of increasingly panicked calls from both VTS and the Sola’s pilots, collided with the Sola, had its steering gear destroyed, then mostly drifted onto rocks (poss with the help of some non-directionally stable power).
If that’s right, wow!