Ship trackers said on Thursday that two more tankers were able to pass through the Strait of Hormuz with their transponders turned off. One ship is headed for India, while the other is bound for China.

The ship headed for India is the Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) Nissos Keros, flagged to the Marshall Islands and chartered by Swiss-based trading company Vitol.

The ship is carrying 1.8 million barrels of crude oil from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and is headed for India’s port of Visakhapatnam, which is the location of a refinery owned by Hindustan Petroleum, a subsidiary of India’s state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.

The other ship is a liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker called Hua Lin Wan, sailing under the Chinese flag and operated by China’s state-owned COSCO shipping corporation. The tanker is carrying a cargo of naphtha from Kuwait, and is scheduled to arrive at China’s port of Huizhou in about two weeks.

They didn't "escape", they were "allowed" to pass. The most heavily guarded waterway on the planet and we didn't notice...C'mon man!!!

Nothing escapes. When you have your foot in an enemy who had a gun pointed at him by his masters, you gotta loosen your foot every now and then to let them take a gulp off air.

The story ends only when the masters with the guns are fully neutered

Hmm...

I'm sure they think they got away Scott free, but we have geo-synched satellites positioned over that area, so I really doubt they actually got away.

Better to let them think they did and follow them from orbit, so we can run them down and interdict at a time of our choosing.

That sounds like a scary voyage.