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‘Saw missiles for first time’: For Paanch Saab, baptism by fire at sea near Hormuz
It lasted a few seconds but it was a sight, she says, she will never forget.Hifa Salim (24) was just months into her dream job, having joined her very first ship in Houston in October 2025, when war broke out in the Persian Gulf, scrapping the ship’s planned cargo run to Kuwait in early March.The vessel was instead directed to drift outside the Strait of Hormuz, near the Fujairah anchorage, and wait. Salim later learned that arriving in the area just 15 hours earlier would have trapped the vessel inside the strait when the situation really deteriorated.
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