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Ship carrying sodium cyanide hits a ship carrying jet fuel for the US navy...
This is sounding less and less like an accident by the minute.
Running a ship into another ship in order to cause a deliberate fuel leak seems like a rather weird attack strategy.
I dunno. Seemed like an accident the first time somebody dragged an anchor to cut internet cables too.
It could just be incompetence, these ships often have minimum crews, minimum training and minimum wages, and apparently wasn't carrying cyanide after all. But the tanker was still taking jet fuel to a US navy base, who presumably won't be able to run as many missions until they get more.
The way the world has been going in the last ten years means I'm no longer a big believer in coincidences.
What's the minimum crew count?
Um, one, I suppose.