An oil tanker with 60M gallons of oil aboard is currently sinking [video]

245 点作者 Tipewryter超过 4 年前

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tpmx超过 4 年前

Highly upvoted comment on that youtube video:"They want to have an oil spill. The cleanup effort costs millions of dollars and the contracts will be awarded to organisation which are in league with politicians and big business. That's how taxpayer money is pocketed by these villians. That's what happened in Mauritius."The creator/poster of the video agrees. ("It does appear that this is the case.")(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sXRU65-3eE&lc=Ugzk0bwbnZXkBE6GVdJ4AaABAg&ab_channel=guns21111" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sXRU65-3eE&lc=Ugzk0bwbnZXkB...</a>)

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kd913超过 4 年前

I was watching a video about how there are thousands of ships (6300) sunk from the past which did not have oil leached from their tanks.These have been converted to basically ticking time bombs as the metal and fuel tanks corrode.The amount of oil in these sunk ships is difficult to estimate, but even on a light estimate resulted in a wide-spread ecological disaster.As usual the response from 95% of governments out there is simply to bury their heads to the problem.Source from DW Documentaries (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP0U62oiBlM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP0U62oiBlM</a>)

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ramshanker超过 4 年前

Reading from the reddit thread, situation has been developing since September. So thankfully, the process is SLOW. Until it reaches some tipping point perhaps.We have 3 choices:A. Optimistic One: A carrier ship arrives and takes the crude away.B. Burn the oil into the air. Though these platforms are not designed to burn the crude itself. Only the residual gases.C. Dump into the ocean. Eventuality if left alone.Tough choices there between B & C!EDIT: Typo.

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webwielder2超过 4 年前

I’m honestly impressed that there are any functioning natural ecosystems on Earth at all at this point.

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mrweasel超过 4 年前

There’s another one of the shore of Yemen. I thought this was about that one, but no. There’s apparently at least two oil disasters under way.

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xphos超过 4 年前

Yeah this is something that seems really easier to fix now and really hard to fix afterwards

web007超过 4 年前

1.3 million gallons, not 60 million, but when you get to that scale it doesn't really matter.The good (?) news is that the list is apparently intentional, in order to repair some ballast pump valves. <a href="https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-pdvsa-eni-vessel/idled-venezuelan-floating-oil-facility-under-repairs-amid-environmental-concerns-source-idUKKBN2712H5" rel="nofollow">https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-pdvsa-eni-vessel/idled-ven...</a>

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teddyphreak超过 4 年前

This ship rests off of the eastern tip of the Venezuelan shoreline, a country ruled by a communist dictatorship that runs all oil operations in the country and simply doesn't care about any of this.They just had an oil spill from a refinery off the western coast in July and have done nothing to either prevent or fix it as far as I am aware (<a href="https://www.dw.com/es/alarma-por-derrame-petrolero-en-costas-de-venezuela/a-54560000);" rel="nofollow">https://www.dw.com/es/alarma-por-derrame-petrolero-en-costas...</a> in fact they had a second oil spill in the same location a couple of weeks later trying to get operations going again.Heck, they had one last year that I believe is still ongoing on and off (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruW_lkWCums&t=244s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruW_lkWCums&t=244s</a>) and this by no means an exhaustive link, just the ones I can remember off the top of my head while writing this noteBy now may be thinking this case is surely different as it has international implications, but never mind, they've already done that before without major consequences (<a href="https://www.abc.es/sociedad/abci-petroleo-venezolano-origina-mayor-catastrofe-ecologica-costas-brasil-201910262051_noticia.html?ref=https:%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F" rel="nofollow">https://www.abc.es/sociedad/abci-petroleo-venezolano-origina...</a>)On top of this the dictatorship is actively blocking access to inspectors to review their claims that everything is under control (<a href="https://www.looptt.com/content/foreign-ministry-no-access-granted-inspect-nabarima-until-oct-20" rel="nofollow">https://www.looptt.com/content/foreign-ministry-no-access-gr...</a>) which is something they could do tomorrow if they so wishedAs a Venezuelan I can assure you there's no need to invoke big business interests or sanctions; they simply don't care. I'd say everyone should start preparing for the worst; will it be a disaster? Absolutely ... one more to add to the long list of disasters they are responsible for; the dictatorship (and us everyday folks in some measure as well) have grown numb to them by nowPS: My hat's off to this guy who literally risked his life in order to bring awareness to this

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aaron695超过 4 年前

"Floating Storage and Offshore (FSO) vessel containing tens of million of gallons of oil with a severe list off the coast of Venezuela""PDVSA in September sought to downplay the risks after the vessel developed an 8 degree list in late August, reportedly the result of flooding in the engine room."<a href="https://gcaptain.com/photo-shows-fso-nabarima-with-severe-list-off-venezuela/" rel="nofollow">https://gcaptain.com/photo-shows-fso-nabarima-with-severe-li...</a>

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jnurmine超过 4 年前

Isn't it cheaper to go there and pump out the oil and sell it, than to fix the ensuing environmental catastrophy?One would think at least the insurance companies involved would be all over this.

Gobblerboats超过 4 年前

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