Venezuelan Navy Ship Sinks after Ramming Cruise Ship
It occurs to me that the Captain may have been given direct instructions over the radio "from home" (The Capital) to do whatever is needed to commandeer that vessel. When firing shots didn't do the trick and he reported back "they are not following instructions to come with us to port" then someone (significantly senior to the Captain) "back home" told him to shoulder/ram the other ship to influence their course.
The Captain, not wanting to be relieved followed his orders to the letter.
Did it happen that way?
No idea, but it might have.
Micro management has become quite the thing in this information age of instantaneous communications.
(Glad to see that all of the ship's personnel were retrieved from the water).
The Captain, not wanting to be relieved followed his orders to the letter.
Did it happen that way?
No idea, but it might have.
Micro management has become quite the thing in this information age of instantaneous communications.
(Glad to see that all of the ship's personnel were retrieved from the water).
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Video Emerges Of Venezuelan Navy Ship Firing On And Colliding With Cruise Ship Before Sinking
The video, which the Venezuelan Navy released and is heavily edited, shows a Venezuelan seaman firing an AK-47 at the ship and then the two ships impacting, with the patrol boat quickly taking on water. The incident occurred in the early hours of March 30th, 2020, and the cruise ship, which was supposedly undergoing repairs at the time, was clearly making little if any speed through relatively calm waters.
From the video it seems they parked themselves at close quarters beam on in front of the Resolute in an effort to impede the Resolutes progress, extremely low speed collision.
I should like to doff my cap to the captain of the 'Resolute', he managed to sink an aggressive naval vessel with his ship basically out of action with engine problems, well done sir, your ship certainly lived up to her name.
Now they have a third submarine.
(And thanks for the laugh, the Missus looked across the room at me and asked "what's so funny over there?")
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They should get together with the Norwegian navy for some exercises, now that would be interesting to watch.
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I can see the captains report now, I came upon a disabled ship adrift, I fired a warning shot across his bow then tore mine off... And if that wasn't bad enough I then brought home the video showing how inept we were, rather than letting it go down with the ship.
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When the time comes they could make a nice modern office desk out of her decking and send it to the President; a Resolute desk two.
A novel way of breaking the ice with the Venezuelans.
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Ohhh dear...we were right Jack 
They would have had a bit of a dilemma, if the ship had responded and they took the crew off, doesn’t the law of the sea require you to land the said survivors at the nearest port, which would have been the one they were trying to get them to go in the first place..
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They would have had a bit of a dilemma, if the ship had responded and they took the crew off, doesn’t the law of the sea require you to land the said survivors at the nearest port, which would have been the one they were trying to get them to go in the first place..
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The Resolute Captain had an issue that makes his actions in not rescuing understandable. There were 32 crew on his ship and he would have been rescuing 44 possibly still armed opposition. What do you think the outcome would have been had he rescued them? Would not have ended well for the Resolute crew.
The Resolute Captain had an issue that makes his actions in not rescuing understandable. There were 32 crew on his ship and he would have been rescuing 44 possibly still armed opposition. What do you think the outcome would have been had he rescued them? Would not have ended well for the Resolute crew.
I agree with your post completely, sorry if my post may have come across as slightly sarcastic.
I was thinking the skipper had a win in not being possibly held in port if he had to deliver the rescued crew.