Yeah, I can see how articles can be different. I read the BBC article.
And to clarify, 56Nm out is from the port of Yokosuka. They were a few Nm off the nearest shoreline, but that's just coastal operation water. It's not quite restricted and needing a pilot under normal circumstances, but it's heavily congested waters. These are big machines, everything happens in slow motion. Just to give you an idea, I've served on vessels the size of the container ship that hit the Fitzgerald, it would take us a few miles to make a Williamson turn at 10 kts. That's 30+ minutes to come back around on our own track to where we started the manuver. That long, that heavy, we don't stop fast, nor turn that quick. Would take us 3-4 Nm to just to come to an emergency dead stop from full ahead (and that's with the engines running full astern and shaking the ship to pieces the whole time).