This video was post edited. Craig does this all the time. Not realistic at all. In fact, when you said that you thought there was something '"fishy" here, I was in the process of opening a giant 32 jar of Pickled Herring for a snack while I watched your video!!
I grew up near NYC where the harbor is intersected by 2 large rivers & contains multiple small islands, with ferries, tourist ferries, cargo, and passenger ships, and a lot of small, private, pleasure craft as well, navigating its waters, even in the early '50s, so I knew about harbor pilots. There was also the Merchant Marine Academy out on LI, not far north of my home. Anyone watching a video of Sully's landing in the Hudson saw just how many boats, and ferries showed up in real short order, to assist, since they were in the area. That was just 1 corner of the harbor, so harbor pilots are necessary & well trained. However, I believe they rely on the ship's crew about the sea worthiness of their ship, since they are only aboard to pilot her into, or out of, the harbor, and if they lie or are unaware of problems, things can go wrong. By the same token, with so much reliance on computers, hacking is not out of the question, out of the control of either harbor pilot or Captain. And then there is the possibility of a saboteur. Or just plain old "sh9t happens", including possible failure simultaneously of both primary and back up systems, and nobody acted intentionally. The fact there are not more frequent collisions, IMO, attests to the skill and training of the harbor pilots. Large ships, or airplanes for that matter, take several seconds to begin responding to sudden changes in command input in a crisis, unlike, say small sports cars, and humans require a few of those to recognize and process a problem as well. Since the computers went down with the power and hydraulics, no help from that quarter.
Personally, I think all this " knee-jerk" speculation and fear mongering is both foolish and unhelpful. Lets let the investigators see what DID happen and why, before we jump off the cliff.
This video was post edited. Craig does this all the time. Not realistic at all. In fact, when you said that you thought there was something '"fishy" here, I was in the process of opening a giant 32 jar of Pickled Herring for a snack while I watched your video!!
I grew up near NYC where the harbor is intersected by 2 large rivers & contains multiple small islands, with ferries, tourist ferries, cargo, and passenger ships, and a lot of small, private, pleasure craft as well, navigating its waters, even in the early '50s, so I knew about harbor pilots. There was also the Merchant Marine Academy out on LI, not far north of my home. Anyone watching a video of Sully's landing in the Hudson saw just how many boats, and ferries showed up in real short order, to assist, since they were in the area. That was just 1 corner of the harbor, so harbor pilots are necessary & well trained. However, I believe they rely on the ship's crew about the sea worthiness of their ship, since they are only aboard to pilot her into, or out of, the harbor, and if they lie or are unaware of problems, things can go wrong. By the same token, with so much reliance on computers, hacking is not out of the question, out of the control of either harbor pilot or Captain. And then there is the possibility of a saboteur. Or just plain old "sh9t happens", including possible failure simultaneously of both primary and back up systems, and nobody acted intentionally. The fact there are not more frequent collisions, IMO, attests to the skill and training of the harbor pilots. Large ships, or airplanes for that matter, take several seconds to begin responding to sudden changes in command input in a crisis, unlike, say small sports cars, and humans require a few of those to recognize and process a problem as well. Since the computers went down with the power and hydraulics, no help from that quarter.
Personally, I think all this " knee-jerk" speculation and fear mongering is both foolish and unhelpful. Lets let the investigators see what DID happen and why, before we jump off the cliff.