To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
This really is an ecological disaster that will take years to recover from I'm curious, during WW 2 there were literally hundreds of tankers sunk or damaged including quite a few off the U.S. coast. Granted these tankers were quite a bit smaller than the supertankers of today but I don't recall hearing too much about fouled beaches or dead wildlife during the war. Can someone please explain this to me?
13 posted on
11/09/2007 12:24:32 PM PST by
Larry381
To: Larry381
I was not around during the war but my guess would be because this is in the bay, not off the coast, and the concern with the environment is a little more front and center since the ‘70s
To: Larry381
Good question. When I was a kid I lived in coastal North Carolina and the old timers all talked about the submarine warfare off the coast in WWII. IIRC, there was a tanker sunk about 60 mi. offshore that was still releasing oil well into the 1970’s and maybe still is AFAIK.
It was one of several that were hit by the Nazi U-Boats.
21 posted on
11/09/2007 12:34:59 PM PST by
hawkboy
(Duncan Hunter '08!)
To: Larry381
Yes, they couldn’t blame Bush!
29 posted on
11/09/2007 1:08:50 PM PST by
Redleg Duke
("All gave some, and some gave all!")
To: Larry381
I'm curious, during WW 2 there were literally hundreds of tankers sunk or damaged including quite a few off the U.S. coast. Granted these tankers were quite a bit smaller than the supertankers of today but I don't recall hearing too much about fouled beaches or dead wildlife during the war. Can someone please explain this to me?
The sea eats it up. Under sea oil seeps (natural geological features) put more oil in the ocean than spills do. The things is a wreck is just so concentrated when it washes up on a nearby shore that it messes things up. Release the same oil a couple thousand feet down and it will be pretty broken up and dissolved by the time it comes up you will not notice it.
35 posted on
11/09/2007 2:49:22 PM PST by
TalonDJ
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