A damning report by the National Safety Transportation Board has detailed the agonizing three minutes before the USS John S. McCain collided with a slow-moving tanker it was overtaking off Singapore, killing 10 and injuring 48 U.S. Navy sailors onboard.

The 57-page report on the August 2017 accident concluded the watchkeepers on the bridge of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer had the opportunity to avoid disaster just 30 seconds before it hit the Alnic MC, a Liberian-flagged chemical tanker with a Filipino crew of 24.

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