I am looking at the hundreds of oil tankers torpedoed in WWII. Most of the articles I am seeing are pearl-clutchers describing these tankers as “time bombs” that could start leaking oil and destroy the whole ocean at any point. So, environmental ‘cleanup’ outfits need more money.
Maybe somebody who knows more about it can say, but I have a hard time believing that all of these tankers went down without spilling their cargo.
I think a BIG hole in a ship would tend to 'leak' something!
But then, maybe it all burned up before getting a chance to pollute the shore.
Does anyone remember, in WW II when Congress authorized the digging of a canal across the peninsula of Florida to shorten the trip from the Gulf oil fields to the east coast refineries? The purpose was to avoid U-boats around Fla.
The canal was never dug.
Remember the mystery of what happened to the massive oil pools from the Deep Water Horizon spill? Natural bateria ate it.