The crew members thought it was nothing unusual, but moments later, the ship captain said, they noticed a vessel rushing toward their ship.
The boat appeared to be remote-controlled — the fishermen they thought they had glimpsed were dummies — and crew members shouted, “Inside!
Inside!” as they raced for cover, according to a video one of them posted on Facebook.
The boat collided with their ship and exploded, shattering glass windows on the bridge of their vessel and submerging the engine room in seawater and oil, the captain said.
“We were all scared,” the captain, Christian Domrique, said on Monday in Manila, where he and the crew members, all of whom are from the Philippines, were brought after the U.S. Navy airlifted them from the stricken vessel.
Persons:
—, “, Christian Domrique
Organizations:
Facebook, U.S . Navy
Locations:
Sea, India, Manila, Philippines, Red, Yemen, Israel, Gaza