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Glouscester2,
I know what you mean. And it does get better every year. Much safer to the environment after the Oil Pollution Act of 1990.
One thing though. Your comment on double hull. Understand one thing. Double hulls are designed for one thing. Hauling bulk oil in tankers. Most all ships have double 'bottoms'. But like the ship in the picture this is were we carry our bunkers...
So you see when hauling cargo oil it has to be in a double hull ship and the deadline is sometime in 2006. But "bunkers" the fuel that the ship burns can in fact be carried in the double bottom space. Some tanks - SW Ballast and some are bunkers.
When a double hull tanker grounds there will still be fuel in the water. Like I said some of the double bottome tanks will be ballast and some will be bunkers. You'll spill your bunker but not your cargo fuel. The ship needs someplace to put all its fuel. If they couldn't put it there it would take up too much space elsewhere and we like to get that weight down low. The regs change all the time and it gets very confusing.
Jon
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