>Some hasty judgements were made by those speculating about the event, with some suggesting the accident “must have been the fault of the tanker crew as a highly trained naval personnel on board a modern warship with sophisticated sensors would be unlikely to make such a mistake.”

That certainly wasn't the general opinion in Norway at the time. Everyone blamed the frigate crew from the start.

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internet_points 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, there was a recording published quite soon after the incident, of the conversation between the seemingly older and experienced tanker captain (speaking in a typical western coastal dialect as if he was born on a boat), and the seemingly quite young naval officer (who sounds like he's from the middle of Oslo), which I'm sure shaped opinion quite strongly:

https://youtu.be/NYqGxbKF0AI?feature=shared&t=110

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potato3732842 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

That transcript is wild!

Tanker announces itself and calls out danger repeatedly the whole way into the collision, announces it has hit the warship and then minutes later after announcing it's lost power the warship further describes the situation "we've hit an unknown object".

Complete lack of situational awareness on the bridge.

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Thlom 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

And most people know that captains of civilian vessels have good navigational and maritime education and have worked their way up, especially on big ships like tankers, while the navy is full of 20 years old cowboys.

	▲	closewith 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Commercial shipping has its fair share of cowboys, too.

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spaniard89277 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Well, the navy has been trying to make Navantia take the blame for quite a while.