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A US news crew film­ing off Trinidad’s south coast record­ed two Amer­i­can naval ves­sels mov­ing through the nar­row chan­nel be­tween Trinidad and Venezuela.

ABC News cor­re­spon­dent Matt Rivers was on a fish­ing boat down the is­lands when the team ob­served a de­stroy­er and an am­phibi­ous as­sault ship east. The ves­sels were too dis­tant for iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, ac­cord­ing to the re­port.

In­de­pen­dent satel­lite an­a­lysts lat­er of­fered more de­tail. SA De­fen­sa, an un­of­fi­cial ac­count track­ing naval ac­tiv­i­ty, post­ed im­agery from the Eu­ro­pean Space Agency’s Sen­tinel-2 iden­ti­fy­ing an Ar­leigh Burke-class de­stroy­er and a San An­to­nio-class land­ing plat­form dock in the Gulf of Paria. The ac­count said both ships were po­si­tioned off the coasts of Trinidad and Venezuela and in prox­im­i­ty to the USS Iwo Ji­ma, which it placed north of the area.