You do realize that inspection of such a vessel is done on a daily basis or higher frequency, right?
You don't just say yolo flip the switch and ignite the engines for a multi million dollar vessel, it's a multiple step process that contains lots of safety checks and precautions, which one of them would be visual inspection for debris.
Personally, I would not like to go to war for a Business Insider article. But no one asks what the German population wants.