Not necessarily - it creates *reasonable* worries that we don’t have the “heavy lifting” required to deal with a large oil spill, or similar maritime emergency (remember that the US, - right off a coast just bristling with oil industry assets - took months to fix a major disaster of theirs).
So not irrelevant at all - though of course both sides of the drilling equation will tend to overstate the risk / the safety for the sake of their own argument.
There was long delay to commencement. A superior oil extraction ship must be designed. Very fast to arrive early. At stern advanced drilling machinery to drill through iron plating for pipe insertion to arrive at oil soon. Extraction pipes will run to coupling pipes from oil filling vessels on either side of extraction ship. A very powerful pump designed.These oil transport ships will arrive and depart in turn. The extraction ship can be designed and built overseas for the world. It is very dicey that all the time hundreds of oil tankers go all over the world and only one ship has to go aground to cause a lot of trouble.
Just wondering, what will happen to the remains of the hull that may be left on the reef once the clean up operation is ‘finished’? I’m presuming the stern etc will eventually break off and fall back down the reef leaving a portion on the reef? Will there be an operation to remove this? I haven’t seen anything in the news regarding that.
Thanks.
@norman - and just how many of these really expensive purpose built ships and crews do you think we would need to have evenly distributed all around the world to deal with the rare accidents that occur?
@Michael - we would simply need to rachet up the cleanup financial responsibilities for all shipping companies by a factor of 10-20, and then they’d fund it. Or move all shipping to shell companies if they haven’t already. The joys of capitalism.
BTW - those hanging containers behind the bridge MUST be empty. No way the twistlocks would have held for over a week, with constant vibration, at that angle, if they had actual contents.
Of course since one WOULD stack empty containers at the highest point, they probably are indeed empty.
It is tempting to reach snap conclusions based upon the facts of one isolated case. Think of the hundreds of ships that come and go each year without incident. We might have discontinued space exploration when Apollo 13 exploded, Titanic had an insufficient number of life boats and a problem with basic construction, but this didn’t bring transatlantic travel to an end, it lead to deeper care and better equipment. Not everything is academic, we human beings also learn from mistakes.
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I hope this puts the nail in the coffin for any govt thoughts to continue to let Petrobras look for oil!
The two are completely unrealated.
Not necessarily - it creates *reasonable* worries that we don’t have the “heavy lifting” required to deal with a large oil spill, or similar maritime emergency (remember that the US, - right off a coast just bristling with oil industry assets - took months to fix a major disaster of theirs).
So not irrelevant at all - though of course both sides of the drilling equation will tend to overstate the risk / the safety for the sake of their own argument.
There was long delay to commencement. A superior oil extraction ship must be designed. Very fast to arrive early. At stern advanced drilling machinery to drill through iron plating for pipe insertion to arrive at oil soon. Extraction pipes will run to coupling pipes from oil filling vessels on either side of extraction ship. A very powerful pump designed.These oil transport ships will arrive and depart in turn. The extraction ship can be designed and built overseas for the world. It is very dicey that all the time hundreds of oil tankers go all over the world and only one ship has to go aground to cause a lot of trouble.
Just wondering, what will happen to the remains of the hull that may be left on the reef once the clean up operation is ‘finished’? I’m presuming the stern etc will eventually break off and fall back down the reef leaving a portion on the reef? Will there be an operation to remove this? I haven’t seen anything in the news regarding that.
Thanks.
I’m not completely sure, but I have heard that they are planning a operation to remove the parts of the ship AFTER they have dealt with the oil.
@norman - and just how many of these really expensive purpose built ships and crews do you think we would need to have evenly distributed all around the world to deal with the rare accidents that occur?
@Michael - we would simply need to rachet up the cleanup financial responsibilities for all shipping companies by a factor of 10-20, and then they’d fund it. Or move all shipping to shell companies if they haven’t already. The joys of capitalism.
BTW - those hanging containers behind the bridge MUST be empty. No way the twistlocks would have held for over a week, with constant vibration, at that angle, if they had actual contents.
Of course since one WOULD stack empty containers at the highest point, they probably are indeed empty.
It is tempting to reach snap conclusions based upon the facts of one isolated case. Think of the hundreds of ships that come and go each year without incident. We might have discontinued space exploration when Apollo 13 exploded, Titanic had an insufficient number of life boats and a problem with basic construction, but this didn’t bring transatlantic travel to an end, it lead to deeper care and better equipment. Not everything is academic, we human beings also learn from mistakes.
It is really sad to see such an incident. I hope they will remove the parts as soon as possible.
BTW New Zealand, the fine for the captain is paltry and the owners of this ship should be made to pay for the total cost of clean up!