Canadian warships collide

[mick063]

2. It appears that they barely "knicked" each other

Perhaps by three or four feet.

A direct 90 degree broadside would have looked much different.

As a former sailor, I will say that the closest I came to death in the Navy was from an underway replenishment, refueling at sea. Our ships did not come close to collision, but I came very close to being caught by a line and pulled overboard.

Extremely dangerous evolution when ships operate in close proximity to each other.

I am not going to poke fun at this incident, knowing the difficulty of the exercise.

Towing boats, at any level, is extremely dangerous. A parting line will whip back and kill a person standing on the bow. Even with small pleasure craft.