“Near as we can tell. After that, Engineer Abbot sounded all stop without any input from the bridge and ordered the fenders out.”

“Why would he do that? They weren’t in port and no communications to other vessels are recorded.”

“Look, I’m just telling you what I see. GPS confirms that there weren’t any transceiver-equipped vessels nearby at the time, and that’s the the last order entered in the log. You saw the fenders when we boarded.”

“It just doesn’t make any sense…”