[Kermit]

Ok, let's run the numbers. 200 supertankers or cargo ships are supposedly destroyed over a period of 20 years. That makes 10 ships a year or one about every 5 weeks. When a ship is in distress, that makes the news. When a ship is sunk, that makes even more news. Why haven't there been news reports about supertankers going down? The enviro-nazis would love to play this up. But we have silence.

[Looking for Diogenes]

Why haven't there been news reports about supertankers going down?

When something happens often enough it ceases to be news.

Listing of Oil Spills

[RGSpincich]

The report linked here reports numbers to support the claims made in the article. The report's focus is the sea-worthiness of vessels and not monster waves but the statistics do coincide. Here is some info.