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In what sounds like it could be an April Fools joke, a Venezuelan Navy offshore patrol vessel recently sank after ramming a cruise liner in the Caribbean Sea. The cruise ship, which had no passengers on board at the time and has a reinforced hull to sail through ice-filled waters, suffered only minimal damage in what the operating company, Columbia Cruise Services, has called an "act of aggression ... in international waters."The incident occurred in the early hours of Mar. 30, 2020, but Columbia Cruise Services only released an official statement on Apr. 1. The company, which is headquartered in Germany, said the RCGS Resolute was drifting just over 13 miles off the coast of Isla La Tortuga, a Venezuelan island situated some 60 miles off the country's northern coast, when ANBV Naiguatá, also known by its hull number GC-23, approached it. The Venezuelan Navy ship ordered the cruise ship to follow it to Puerto Moreno on Isla De Margarita, located to the east, accusing it of violating the country's territorial waters.
RCGS Resolute was scheduled to conduct a cruise to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, and Antarctica from October 19, 2019, through November 6, 2019, beginning and ending in Ushuaia. A medical emergency occurred on the ship while it was en route to Ushuaia, which delayed the ship, so the passengers were flown to Buenos Aires to meet the ship. The ship sailed from Buenos Aires on October 19. On October 22, the ship entered the port at Puerto Madryn to refuel. After sitting in port for two days, it was revealed that the fuel could not be obtained because of non-payment by the ship operator, One Ocean Expeditions. The Antarctic expedition was cancelled and the ship sailed back to Buenos Aires with all its passengers. Once in Buenos Aires, the passengers disembarked and were left on their own with no reimbursement or compensation. The ship was subsequently arrested in Buenos Aires for non-payment of debts. At last report, the ship was still under arrest in Buenos Aires, having missed the entire 2019-2020 Antarctic season.
