U.S. Navy: Collisions Of Two Navy Ships “Avoidable” 

(Washington, DC)  —  The Navy says two deadly collisions involving warships could have been avoided.

Navy officials blamed both incidents on a series of failures by crew members.

In June, the USS. Fitzgerald collided with a container ship off the coast of Japan, killing seven sailors. A little over two months later, the USS John McCain collided with a merchant vessel near Singapore, where ten sailors died. The Navy removed several senior officers including the captain of one ship for ignoring safety directives.