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Originally posted by beamie
Oh,
One more thing, you'll love this one.....
If the ship is Government owned. Like a Navy, CG or a Gov owned Merchant ship. The Double Hull Regs don't apply......go figure.
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That's great! The merchants are regulated to death, but not the gov.
We only put clean ballast in our double hull as I recall. It's been 10 years though and I can't remember what I had for dinner yesterday!
Double hulls will help, but in the Exxon accident, I don't think it would have prevented oil from getting into the water.
A writer (can't remember who (see above)) once compared the hull of a supertanker to a gallon of oil in a ziplock bag. Good analogy I thought. Double hull = 2 baggies!?