{"id":6744,"date":"2026-02-12T15:27:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/12\/us-navy-ships-collision-caribbean-minor-injuries\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T15:27:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:27:36","slug":"us-navy-ships-collision-caribbean-minor-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/12\/us-navy-ships-collision-caribbean-minor-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Two US Navy Ships Collide in the Caribbean Sea, Two Slightly Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal has reported that two United States Navy ships collided on Wednesday in the waters of the Caribbean Sea, resulting in minor injuries to two individuals.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the incident occurred during a refueling operation at sea when fuel was being transferred from one ship to another. At-sea refueling operations typically take place in open waters under coordinated conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The American newspaper stated that one of the vessels involved was a destroyer and the other was a fuel support ship. The event reportedly took place in waters near South America, likely within the Caribbean Sea or the vicinity of Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>So far, no further details have been released regarding the exact cause of the collision or the extent of any potential damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two US Navy ships collided in the Caribbean during a refueling operation, causing minor injuries to two crew members. Details remain limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}