The maritime history of the MV "Olga Patricia", which was renamed the MV "Laissez Faire", is surrounded in mystery. Lloyd's Shipping Registry states the "Laissez Faire" was the former MV "Olga Princess", a sister ship to "Olga Patricia". It states that the "Laissez Faire" became the MV "Earl J. Conrad, Jr.", owned by the Zapata companies which in the 1990s announced plans to turn a new Internet service called "ZAP!" into a bigger company than Yahoo!. Zapata had ties to George H. W. Bush (former Central Intelligence Agency chief and U.S. President).