While the Sterling cruise was alive with joy and celebration, with music filling the night air and laughter echoing across the sea, a shadow loomed just beyond the reach of its golden lights. In the distance, another cruise ship glided silently across the water, its presence almost undetectable. Unlike the Sterling cruise, which was bathed in light and filled with life, this ship moved through the darkness like a phantom, with no lights to announce its presence, no sounds to betray its approach.