"Has yet to respond" is not equivalent to "refusing to respond".
The captain is an employee, as he is not the owner of the vessel. He won't do anything without being informed so by his employer, and seeing as Egypt is already trying to grift an absurd billion dollars for what amounts to a few days of digging sand, I wouldn't be in a hurry to do anything more than make a talk-to-the-hand motion followed by a thumb-hook to the lawyers.
"Has yet to respond" is not equivalent to "refusing to respond".
The captain is an employee, as he is not the owner of the vessel. He won't do anything without being informed so by his employer, and seeing as Egypt is already trying to grift an absurd billion dollars for what amounts to a few days of digging sand, I wouldn't be in a hurry to do anything more than make a talk-to-the-hand motion followed by a thumb-hook to the lawyers.