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Once reported, and the shoes found, it became a "man overboard" situation and the ship came under the command of the nearest country's navy (in this case Venezuela) until a full grid search could be completed. We remained under navy control until that evening when the search was called off. The next day the ship made dock in St. Maartin as it also turned out that Aruba had been experiencing a completely out of season tropical storm that had knocked out power to most of the island.