Chinese coal carrier Shen Neng One ran aground on Douglas Shoal.
Hope this does not become another Exxon Valdez oil spill of '89.
Chinese coal carrier Shen Neng One ran aground on Douglas Shoal.
Hope this does not become another Exxon Valdez oil spill of '89.
Never Drink and Supertanker
Yes, it is an oil leak - and, “no, it is not meaningless” - but there is more oil released (naturally) from undersea vents off the CA coast every day.
If we drilled off of CA to reduce the pressure, there’d even be less oil released.
Not where they’re supposed to be? Defecting, maybe, or perhaps electronic surveillance?
(I know it doesn't follow that it would be a cause of an oil spill.....but it feels good to say it.8-)
How would a coal carrier become another Exxon Valdez which was a tanker?
The Valdez was an oil tanker, carrying oil. This ship is a coal carrier, with just a little oil for it's own engines. It could spill all of it, and while it wouldn't be pretty, it would not came with a couple of orders of magnitude of the Valdez spill. Plus the Valdiz spill was in sheltered waters, this one not.
on purpose???