Oil Tanker Splits - the world's worst environmental disaster - GoFuckYourself.com

DarkJedi · 11-19-2002, 04:07 AM

The crippled oil tanker Prestige split in two today off Spain's northwest Atlantic coast, threatening one of the world's worst environmental disasters. The vessel is carrying 70,000 tons of fuel oil, and environmentalists have said the spill could be twice as big as 1989's Exxon Valdez spill off Alaska.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe...oil/index.html

I'm fucking fliping out !!

boldy · 11-19-2002, 04:08 AM

Hamlet · 11-19-2002, 04:09 AM

damn

nice sig btw

quiet · 11-19-2002, 04:10 AM

it was just a matter of time. damn.

BJ · 11-19-2002, 04:11 AM

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Dr White said the investigation into the ship's breaking up would be sure to look at whether it would have been avoided if the move to compulsory double-hulled tankers from single-hulled had gone ahead sooner

Double hulled tankers should be manadatory and should be subsidized.

Beastiepoo · 11-19-2002, 04:12 AM

Fuck. I was wondering when it was gonna go. I had a feeling that for all their efforts that the weather was just too bad and was gonna rip that ship apart.

These sorts of things always pull at my heart strings because the wildlife is always so devistated. There is very little that can be done, the damage is always too great.

SetTheWorldonFire · 11-19-2002, 04:13 AM

dam... compare the tanker to the spill. That's a lot fucking oil.

dickblast · 11-19-2002, 04:14 AM

oil companies truly are the devil

BJ · 11-19-2002, 04:14 AM

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Originally posted by dickblast
oil companies truly are the devil

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dickblast · 11-19-2002, 04:16 AM

that site is awesome

Rochard · 11-19-2002, 08:12 AM

Funny thing here....... A tanker splits open in the ocean and it's a disaster..... But when Iraq popped open all of Kuwait's oil wells it send 10 times what any oil tanker can hold into the sea - not to mention what it did on land - and no one seemed to notice.

Joe Sixpack · 11-19-2002, 08:14 AM

Who gives a fuck? It's all about money, right?

Forget the environment and make more cash.

God bless the USA for helping me get my priorities straight!

Thank you Jesus!

BJ · 11-19-2002, 08:32 AM

I wonder how oil compares to the tabacco lobby?

Pipecrew · 11-19-2002, 09:52 AM

osama will take credit

theking · 11-19-2002, 12:17 PM

Damn.

DarkJedi · 11-19-2002, 12:22 PM

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Originally posted by Joe Sixpack
Who gives a fuck? It's all about money, right?

Forget the environment and make more cash.

God bless the USA for helping me get my priorities straight!

Thank you Jesus!

dude, thats not cool.

railz · 11-19-2002, 12:23 PM

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Originally posted by DarkJedi

I'm fucking fliping out !!

I thought that's what Ninjas did? Flipped out and killed people?

DearAbby · 11-19-2002, 12:23 PM

While you ladies are at it, go run around the forest nakid, beat drums, and get in touch with your inner selves.

Horny Dude · 11-19-2002, 12:49 PM

This sucks hard! We are just tearing up this enviroment!

twistyneck · 11-19-2002, 12:58 PM

This shit is gonna happen now and again. bfd.

jfkpt · 11-19-2002, 01:32 PM

you can tell me again it's fucked up.
i live in northern portugal and i have a house by the beach which has good chances of being hit by the spill...

not good....

Voodoo · 11-19-2002, 02:36 PM

"one of its tanks was punctured due to unknown causes" - Hmm... Interesting.

FreeOnes · 11-19-2002, 02:40 PM

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Originally posted by RocHard
Funny thing here....... A tanker splits open in the ocean and it's a disaster..... But when Iraq popped open all of Kuwait's oil wells it send 10 times what any oil tanker can hold into the sea - not to mention what it did on land - and no one seemed to notice.

That's one of the reasons why they should kill Sadam ASAP !!

Pornwolf · 11-19-2002, 02:43 PM

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Originally posted by Voodoo
"one of its tanks was punctured due to unknown causes" - Hmm... Interesting.

This is what I'm wondering about as well. A modern ship suddenly splitting in two?

theking · 11-19-2002, 02:46 PM

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Originally posted by Voodoo
"one of its tanks was punctured due to unknown causes" - Hmm... Interesting.

Moby Dick???

FreeOnes · 11-19-2002, 02:46 PM

the worst of all is that this disaster possibly could have been prevented if the stupid goverment of Spain

did allow our Dutch salvage company to bring the ship to a harbour or bay with more calm water.

Rodent · 11-19-2002, 02:56 PM

Snake Doctor · 11-19-2002, 03:06 PM

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Originally posted by PureMeds

Double hulled tankers should be manadatory and should be subsidized.

Mandatory? Sure.......Subsidized? FUCK NO

The last thing we need is to give more fucking charity to the oil companies than Dick and Dubya already do.
When a company makes $10 million dollars a DAY in profits I think they can buy their own fucking boats

PaulSweet · 11-19-2002, 03:27 PM

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Originally posted by Pornwolf

This is what I'm wondering about as well. A modern ship suddenly splitting in two?

A lot of the giant tankers are at risk of splitting. If you do some research you will see that they have found that beyond a certain size the risk of those tankers splitting is too great to risk building. A lot of the jumbo tankers get stressfractures the same way airplanes due from the stress of the ocean and the size of the hull.

andi_germany · 11-19-2002, 03:33 PM

The relieving part in such disasters is that in the end nature will survive far longer than mankind will.
It's really time for people to wake up and see nature as what it is: It's a loan to mankind and not some thing that needs to get exploited for profit.

FreeOnes · 11-19-2002, 04:00 PM

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Originally posted by andi_germany
The relieving part in such disasters is that in the end nature will survive far longer than mankind will.
It's really time for people to wake up and see nature as what it is: It's a loan to mankind and not some thing that needs to get exploited for profit.

jfkpt · 11-19-2002, 04:10 PM

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Originally posted by freeones
the worst of all is that this disaster possibly could have been prevented if the stupid goverment of Spain did allow our Dutch salvage company to bring the ship to a harbour or bay with more calm water.

yeah, you know what those spanish fucks did?
they pushed the ship to high sea and down, near our portugusese waters...
fuck them and fuck the portuguese government for not having the balls to fight back.

FreeNetPass Steve · 11-19-2002, 04:22 PM

That sucks

ChrisH · 11-19-2002, 05:09 PM

This is a terrible disaster. However I am glad it was not a US owned ship or the world would be screaming it's bull shit that the US blah blah blah........

In this thread alone I saw two morons mention the US and it had nothing to do with us. Too funny.

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jfkpt Registered User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Portugal Posts: 71	you can tell me again it's fucked up. i live in northern portugal and i have a house by the beach which has good chances of being hit by the spill... not good....

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ChrisH Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: New York Posts: 1,355	This is a terrible disaster. However I am glad it was not a US owned ship or the world would be screaming it's bull shit that the US blah blah blah........ In this thread alone I saw two morons mention the US and it had nothing to do with us. Too funny.