The captain drove the ship onto the rocks.
Unlike Heiwa I have never been a dock worker so I am not an expert on hull design.
However, I do know that captains are not supposed to crash into continents.
I think that's on the first page of the manual.
No, the first page of
International Safety Management manuals for the ship, written by the ship owner or me, doesn't normally say so.
There may be an instruction somewhere that the Master shall be informed/called to the bridge, when course is changed at sea, etc, but the actual navigation and maneuvering of the ship is always delegated to other crew/officers.
I knew many captains loving to maneuver their ships in and out of ports but ... a little turn at sea a dark night?
Anyway, the last starboard ~50° turn starting at 21.39 hrs ending with a '
contact' at 21.45 hrs is a mystery.
If you start such a turn at 21.39 hrs, the turn should be finished at 21.41 hrs and you are on your new course far away from land. You should really study
http://heiwaco.com/news81.htm about the mystery. It is interesting stuff.
Conspiracy theorists think that the last mysterious maneuver was to drop off a big bag of cocaine to be picked up by some mafioso in a yacht and in the excitement they got too close to land.