Posted on 08/16/2006 7:51:02 AM PDT by GATOR NAVY
The Bright Artemis, a 146,463-ton Singaporean-registered tanker, is shown in this undated photo. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
It's not a US tanker so this will be met by yawns from the environmentalists.
Why tonnage??? At 7 lbs per gallon, 4300 tonnes is over 1.3 million gallons, Why don't they just tell it like it is?
The Nicobar Islands of India
There are natives on those islands who will kill you for merely stepping on their beaches. They actually may be the home of the last truly primitive peoples anywhere in the world, and India has laws protecting their right to kill people who venture onto their territory. Something tells me that we won't be seeing any sympathetic shots of environmentalists rescuing oily seabirds this time around.
Yes. I am aware of that. The Indian Coast Guard allows no-one near the islands. They operate radar installations on those islands.
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Stone Age Tribe Kills Fishermen Who Strayed On To Island
This is a bad week for Croat captains:
Croatian ferry rams into pier; passengers hurt
Zagreb, Aug. 16 (AP): A ferry with more than 300 people on board crashed into a concrete pier while trying to dock in the Croatian port of Split on Wednesday, injuring at least 18 passengers, police in the southern coastal city said.
The injured, including six seriously hurt, were rushed to a hospital, police said. At least 15 cars parked in the hull of the vessel were damaged.
The Ministry of Tourism, Development and Maritime Affairs said that both engines on the ship had broken down and that two anchors subsequently released by the captain failed to prevent the accident.
A full investigation was under way, they said.
The ferry was carrying passengers from the Croatian island of Solta.
1 gross register ton is equal to a volume of 100 cubic feet
I'll sit back and let the brainiacks do the math.
How many barrels per ton? Seven? That would save on memory storage.
Pretty funny.
Oil patch professionals report oil as barels (volume) or in tons - which is volume related, but it seems reporters use gallons -- must want to use a larger number.
Weight changes due to differences in the product.
From those photos, the tribe is probably smart killing anyone who comes near it. If they had interaction with the continent, I could see a seaside resort there in a heartbeat -- it's beautiful!
You've got to see this then:
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Stone Age Tribe Kills Fishermen Who Strayed On To Island
I thought it was water displacement.
Yes, I read it. Frightening.
I aways knew that when boating, getting drunk was not an option -- and these guys became the poster boys for that advice!
The oil will break down naturally and will not have a large environmental impact.
The biggest advantage of it being so far from land is that the environmentalists won't try and clean up the spill and do much more damage to the environment in the process like they have in the past.
I think he would often use colorful and shiny things and trinkets - attaching or nailing them to trees, for example -to distract them long enough so he and the others could get back on the boat and out to sea.
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