Yes Rod, and to me it indicates that crews today do not appear to be as highly trained and competent in their jobs as crews were a few decades back. Too much reliance on GPS, Satnav, and instrumentation, and not enough plain old Mark 1 Eyeball work, touchy-feely around the machinery, and intuition.
How on earth does one run a ship ashore with all those devices operating to keep you from NOT running ashore?
Don't they learn anything when training in the shore simulators?
When I went to sea, to become an engineer you first did a 4-5 year apprenticeship in a heavy marine workshop, repairing all types of ships that came into your port. When not on the ships you were in the workshop operating machine tools, welding, rebuilding machinery, or at night school learning more about metallurgy, stress & strain, properties of materials, etc. Or you did a cadetship with a shipping line, which supposedly covered all the above, but one didn't have the machine tools or the workshop.
Today, the trainees spend 14 months at sea with their 'Work books' (asking as many questions as they can to fill in the answers), plus 17 months in the classroom ashore, What they learn aboard their ship depends very much on the attitude of the person the trainee is asking the question of. As we know, some seafarers will tell the trainees exactly where to go, and stop pestering me! (Put very politely!)
Perhaps, for the safety of other vessels around the world, the Evergreen Line ships should become 'Ever Stopped', until their crew training systems and certification have been checked to see how many 'pirate tickets' they are employing, and to see why their STCW seems to be deficient.