...what will be the likely consequences for the Capt. and top crew?
I'm more of an Army guy, not a sailor.
But, seems to me this wasn't a career builder...
Put another way, the Navy puts you in charge of a billion dollar piece of equipment with crew. On your watch, said billion dollar asset gets T-boned by a huge freighter in open sea, killing 7 of your assigned, major damage to your assigned asset.
Even Army thinking would conclude that was pretty bad...
Board of Inquiry should be interesting.
DF