transport dozens of vehicles and house hundreds of sailors and marines. a small floating city where a visiting officer marks an important step in his military career. a ceremony at saea where this marine lieutenant receives the promotion to the rank of capt n captain. the u.s. commands the world s largest navy, but in two separate incidents last summer, navy ships from the 7th fleet collided with merchant vessels killing 17 sailors. the navy concluded these accidents could have been avoided. commanders say they have served as a wake-up call. not being complacent and use all means available to evaluate your current situation. reporter: in response the navy fired eight senior officers. and stepped up training and monitoring from the decks of these giant vessels.
options are, and is it possible that they might try to shift all of this blame on to the captain? because they kind of own that. they own that captain and the expertise and the decision making. the admiralty law says that the ship company is not a automatically viable for the negligence of the ship s capt n captain. if if the captain is negligent, that xacompany can be liable ift is in the privity of the ship owner. so in the law, did the shipping company have any prior notice? did they select a incompetent captain, then they may be liable, but if they had a competent captain and had no idea that he would do anything