Posted on 04/05/2020 7:58:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Reports out of Berlin tell of a German Arctic cruise ship being fired on by a Venezuelan naval vessel, which then rammed the passenger liner, sinking itself in the process.
No, this is not a story that appeared in The Onion.
The Jerusalem Post says that the incident occurred on March 30 and took place in international waters.
The Iranian regime-allied Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro accused the captain of the RCGS RESOLUTE cruise ship of terrorism and piracy" and sought to force the ship into a new direction on the high seas. The cruise ship, which had no passengers on board and was sailing under a Portuguese flag, has a reinforced hull that enables it to sail through ice water.
An unarmed passenger ship accused of "terrorism and piracy"? Well, it is the Venezuelan navy.
Columbia Cruise Services continued, stating that Shortly after mid-night, the cruise vessel was approached by an armed Venezuelan navy vessel, which via radio questioning the intentions of the RCGS RESOLUTEs presence and gave the order to follow to Puerto Moreno on Isla De Margarita. As the RCGS RESOLUTE was sailing in international waters at that time, the Master wanted to reconfirm this particular request resulting into a serious deviation from the scheduled vessels route with the company DPA.
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frakin hilarious! Ditto’s. Love the “Crew of 1.” Oh, and no cardboard. LOL!!!
I can remember when Earl would paint your car for $29.95.
Jeez I must be really old. I rememeber $19.95 and when it went to $29.95.
I shall taunt you again!
I took autobody in High School 11th & 12 grade's. stuck with it until I reached the age 38, realized I was getting to old for that line of work, not to mention I was burned out. Was Tired of giving top shelf work for pennies. Went to work for Boeing Aircraft Everett 4 yr's, Seattle 1.5 yr's, approx 1986 -91. Somewhere along the line, went to community collage, took Welding classes, I thought I knew all their was to welding via autobody, boy was I wrong, BIG TIME!!! Still weld in my shop, just don't keep a big schedule, nice easy pace. If I feel like working I work, or now play as a hobby machinist. Would have been cheaper to get involve with drug's, or you could say I'm into heavy metal, (milling machine, metal lathe, plus TOOLING, is where you drop money big time) and now getting ready to setup a CNC Plasma Cutting machine.
Gotta do something @ 66 yr's of age.
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