bad ship don't do that no more

Here's a link to a good very complete article about the spill, one week after the accident, from the SF Chronicle.  What struck me most here is that with all the modern electronics on board (but radar possibly on the fritz) the only reason the ship may have not crashed head on to the pylon was because the lookout on the bow saw them heading straight towards the pylon and he yelled and rang an alarm bell.   Hard to even imagine what may have happened if the ship had hit head on!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/11/14/MNC5TBQ9R.DTL

-Matt