Situational awareness, I've been fuming on this for a few days. I've made this run from KNB to Manama, it's a short run in a fast boat. This is a navigational FUBAR by the OIC. First rule in High Speed Nav, when you have conflicting fixes, SLOW DOWN, take a fix, do it again. Someone was "IN CHARGE", 50 miles off course, sorry charlie, there's only like 2 dog legs in that run till you get to Bahrain bell. Sooooo anyway, there's a long road to recovery for this one. As far as his apology, maybe a trip to SERE would have done him some good. BTDT.......you have a Pilot and a Navigator running each boat. Each one checking the other. The pilot drives/navigates the craft and handles all close in contacts the Navigator handles the long range contacts and primaries Navigation! That's four people all together in two crafts, plus one OIC who's overall all responsible.................50miles........you have a magnetic compass you are supposed to be comparing to as well. (TWO OF THOSE, two boats) No this is one major FUBAR. There IS WAS and WILL STILL BE a serious lack of leadership.
As for the Farsi Island spying theory, skip it, look at them. I won't go into details about who and what this particular crew does without being bias. Where was/were the fucking CHIEF?

This makes my head just want to explode.................there's a million things i want to say but......I'd just be venting......the best thing I found out is there wasn't anyone I knew in any of those crews. I still have a few left in the fight.

Wait till you see how this turns out (Navy).
Uncle Joe the Perv Biden said our boats broke down? Make up your mind Dumb Ass. What the hell do you know about Nautical? Cept maybe your rubber ducky.......