You're welcome. I'm loving this, the news is finally in my wheelhouse! I should do an ama thread or something...

With ships that size you have to be minutes ahead of what's happening. When things go wrong in a carasst freeway speed, you have that second of adrenaline as you see what's about to happen before it's over. On a large vessel, it's minutes of powerless sheer terror watching it unfold in slow motion, too late to change it.

Compare it to driving down the freeway in a construction zone with barriers a couple feet from either side of your car. As you're gently correcting the steering to keep yourself centered, the steering wheel locks up tight. How long until you touch a side? Probably not long. At that point even if steering comes back it's already over.

Hey, for the ever given (much like the car) it could have simply been a moment of inattention while the helmsman made a booboo. Left instead of right. You'd be amazed how often it happens. Steering hundreds of thousands of tons with precision is exhausting for the man on the wheel. And we work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week for months. At least.

All that said, this still looks fishy as hell. There will be excuses aplenty, and they'll be very plausible. But c'mon man, H3RC? The timing?