Sail round the world in two easy legs... NOT

The skipper decided to not sort out the furling rope that broke yesterday, saying we can carry on with it fully out giving maximum power and speed for the rest of the day, (my thoughts were sort it now, just in case)
Today, at 17:30 I was down below resting before my watch, when I’m called to help tack away from a freighter that should have given way to us. The skipper Had put in about 8 calls to this other boat `Northern Rock` without any reply, they came within 50 metres of running our little boat ⛵️over, we tacked out of the way, but in doing so one of our ropes came loose and got wrapped tightly round another connected to the head sail. Now both ropes are thrashing around, they need to be sorted, and quickly, I climbed out on deck to unwrap them, the waves were crashing up the decks and soaking me through (including my new leg 🦵) and almost knocking me over the side, this is the first time it has been like this for me and it was very scary indeed. The skippers wife came out to help which was much needed. One of the stansions holding the safety guard rails in place had come off, so it meant there was almost nothing stopping me from going overboard, I did have my life jacket 🧥 on and my lifeline connected. If we had sorted the line earlier we definitely would not have had this problem, because we could have pulled the sail fully in and got the job done in relative safety.
The other boat 🚢 sailed away with little regard to us, my skipper told them that he was going to report the incident, but I doubt anything will be done about the very near miss that they were responsible for.
However how did we manage to sneak up so close to us without anyone noticing