The ship’s captain, Cmdr. Bryce Benson, was trapped inside his cabin
Sorry guys. I am. But I am not buying one single word of this bullshit. Something happened, we know that. The details do not make any sense.
The captain would be on the bridge pulling into port. I say, BULLSHIT!
The more I hear, the less I believe.
Are you a Navy guy or something? I went to the Naval Academy, and spent a few months on board Navy ships during some summers, so I was never a line officer in the Navy. But what you're describing doesn't make sense.
The Captain would indeed be on the bridge when a ship is "pulling into port". But the Fitz
wasn't pulling into port -- it was hours away, and it is entirely normal for the Captain to be in his stateroom at that time of night. Also, if this was some kind of planned intercept or something, the ship would have been at general quarters. Nobody, including the sailors who were killed, would have been in their quarters sleeping.
Accidents like this happen because the Navy, unlike commercial ships, tracks more than just those few ships that potentially impede its course. They're tracking far more targets, partially for tactical/security reasons, partially for training. And because they're paying so much more attention to so many more ships, it's easier to miss one.
This is not the first collision between a Navy ship and a commercial ship, and it won't be the last.