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 RESOLUTE’s 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 vessel’s route with the company DPA.”
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The utter hilarity of this is too much, almost along the same lines as “The Front Fell Off”.....frakin hilarious!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
Blatant act of state sponsored piracy. We’ve invaded countries in the region for a lot less
I am old enough to remember when it was $29.95.
RE: Caught entirely off guard, the girls began throwing the cookies at the attacking Venezuelan unit of about 40 soldiers. With roughly equal numbers, the scouts tipped several of the tables over on their sides to form a type of shield. After several minutes, the Venezuelan army retreated to a safe distance and may have crossed back into Venezuela.
Well, this is a testament to the still existing HUMANE spirit of the Venezuelan Military. If it were the Iranian army, these girls would be machine gunned to death and some captured and sent to prison ( maybe sold to the slave traders ).
A video of the sunken Venezuelan war vessel should be available on YouTube any minute now.
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No coverage of this act of piracy in the mainstream media. None at all.
Yeah, I did provide assistance!
I threw them 5 bottles of water.
They were going to steal the ship. claiming it violated territorial waters.
I was stumbling on a few things with this story.... icebreaker, cruise ship, Germans and in the vicinity of Venezuela but in international waters. Here is the website of the operator... apparently they do tours to both the Arctic and Antarctica but also South and Central America. https://www.oneoceanexpeditions.com/vessels/vessel-rcgs-resolute
Maybe weld even more reinforcement plates over the top of those scrapes and gouges?
The cruise ship is sort of like Trump in a way. He who attacks ends up, well, sunk.
The Venezuelans are messing with the most powerful forces on the entire ocean - the maritime insurance companies. "Oh, well, if they're going to ram merchants, from now on we won't pay off if you go there." That, my FRiends, is a genuine and serious threat.
Plus the RCGS Resolute is equipped with a Bulbous Bow. That's what the symbol that look's like a backward letter "C" with an accent mark at the top of the letter means.
The other symbol, look's like the letter "X" with a circle means the ship has "Bow Thruster(s.)" A Maneuvering thruster is a transversal propulsion device built into, or mounted to, either the bow or stern, of a ship or boat to make it more maneuverable, while Docking.
Your showing your age by mentioning that Earl The Pearl (a.k.a. Earl Scheib) will paint your car for $99.99. Good thing you didn’t mention the $69.99 price, you’d be really showing your age.
Not just any salt water, we're talking "Venezuelan navy-salt water." Extremely rare, almost extinct.
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