Tanker Sinking
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An oil tanker sunk off the coast of Manhattan in 2007 after being hijacked by a soldier claiming to be Solid Snake. The US Navy stormed the tanker in an effort to capture him, but it sunk before they could, causing a massive oil spill in the waters of Manhattan.
The entire incident, however, was riddled with fabrications. The tanker was actually a US Naval ship that was transporting Metal Gear RAY, a new model of manned Metal Gear, to a training site off Bermuda. Revolver Ocelot sunk the ship to cover up his heist of Metal Gear RAY. Solid Snake, how had infiltrated the tanker, was believed to have gone down with the ship and was later framed as the leader of the ship hijacking.