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[–] [email protected] 149 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'd like this a lot more if it wasn't dumping oil into the sea...

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago

Yeah. The nature devastation kinda takes the fun out of it...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (5 children)

100,000 tons of crude. Who's responsible for mopping this around for PR before it finally sinks to the bottom?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wouldn't hold your breath. "People waiting to be saved in the Middle East" is a long list, and I assume the seabirds are low down.

What is a typical rate of actual recovery after an oil spill?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

There's an even longer list of "people not waiting anymore to be saved in the Middle East", where entries are usually permanent.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Just tow the boat out of the environment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think it sinks. I think it floats until it ends up on a coast somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I was just thinking of all the tar balls and tar logs and polluted animal life sinking into the abyss, but generally, yea, I think it does just wash up places.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If it’s like oil spills in the U.S., volunteers with Dawn soap and maybe some of the costs will be felt by the oil company after 25 years of litigation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Who's going to try and risk getting sunk by a drone or a missile?

[–] lurch 4 points 1 month ago

Hear me out: If it's on fire it destroys more of the climate and less of the ocean... (not sure if win tho)