Would this be a problem?

[Adam R]

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.

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!?