oil tanker disaster http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/11/19/spain.oil/index.html
looks like the oil has reached shore
looks like the oil has reached shore
oil tanker disaster
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pdoege
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She's carrying 70,000 tons of heavy crude.
70 million kilos. 140 million pounds!
That's a lot of oil.
Not a double hulled ship either. I thought that the fleets had been converted?
Anyway, it appears to be a huge environmental disaster.
Peter
70 million kilos. 140 million pounds!
That's a lot of oil.
Not a double hulled ship either. I thought that the fleets had been converted?
Anyway, it appears to be a huge environmental disaster.
Peter
FredT
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This is the MOST environmentally hazadous way of getting energy. A pipeline or well can only put out a fraction of the spill potential of a VLCC. The VLCC effectivly carries enough crude oil to float the hull due to the residual buoyancy of the oil, so for the VLCC to skink the oil HAS to come out to a large extent.
The best realistic energy choice is to drill where ever you can find oil domestically and deliver it by pipeline, because even very sloppy drilling is better than a VLCC wreck by several orders of magnitude. The enviro-freaks stopping drilling off US coasts in the name of "saving the environment" are doing none of us a favor. They just increase the chances of something like this happening on this side of the pond. All ships eventually either sink or are broken for scrap. That is the nature of the beast. Mother Ocean is hungry and WILL take her percentage of tonnage every year. The mix of cargo she has to choose from is about all we have any choice about.
VLCC=Very Large Crude Carrier=Supertanker
FT
The best realistic energy choice is to drill where ever you can find oil domestically and deliver it by pipeline, because even very sloppy drilling is better than a VLCC wreck by several orders of magnitude. The enviro-freaks stopping drilling off US coasts in the name of "saving the environment" are doing none of us a favor. They just increase the chances of something like this happening on this side of the pond. All ships eventually either sink or are broken for scrap. That is the nature of the beast. Mother Ocean is hungry and WILL take her percentage of tonnage every year. The mix of cargo she has to choose from is about all we have any choice about.
VLCC=Very Large Crude Carrier=Supertanker
FT
I guess half the boat went down already
I just heard on NPR that 100 million gallons of crude went down with this ship. They stated that the enviromental destruction will be at least twice what the Exxon Valdez was.
I guess we will never learn.........
I guess we will never learn.........
The tanker has split in two and sunk.
There is a lot more crude oil that went down in the compartments of the boat and the wreck is now a timebomb that could destroy the coastline, sealife, birds and a very important coral reef in the area.
Yes, it is indeed a single-hulled vessel. International maritime authorities had pledged to phase out this type of vessel but that is expected to take years.
There is a lot more crude oil that went down in the compartments of the boat and the wreck is now a timebomb that could destroy the coastline, sealife, birds and a very important coral reef in the area.
Yes, it is indeed a single-hulled vessel. International maritime authorities had pledged to phase out this type of vessel but that is expected to take years.
Oops! Read in the local rag that there was "only" 20 million gallons on board when she went down (not 100 million gallons). I understand that this fuel oil is real nasty. It has very high viscosity and may take years to clean up. Even if the oil stays in the tanks, the ship will eventually waste away. This means an on going enviromental diaster for many years. At almost 11,000 feet on the bottom there is simply not much anyone can do.
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