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2009-11-23 Africa Horn

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Posted by Fred 2009-11-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top
File under: Pirates

#1 Ahem, there's a lack of details here: how did the pirate boat sink?

Deferred maintenance. Lots of that in the Iranian military. Look at their aircraft safety record.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-11-23 07:40|| 2009-11-23 07:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Two billion barrels of oil! Let me see that is 2 B times $70 = $140B. Wow!! Someone is making money. And that is one tanker.

Posted by Art 2009-11-23 09:36|| 2009-11-23 09:36|| Front Page Top

#3 two billion barrels?
Criminey that's one BIG ship.
I think that's a typo error.
A barrel holds 45 gallons or approximately 6 cubic feet of oil. two billion barrels is about twelve billion cubic feet of ship storage...did they make a boat out of that monstrosity that the UAE is building (world's tallest building) or what?
One of the twin towers was only 4.4 billion cubic feet.

Posted by Karl Rove 2009-11-23 10:45|| 2009-11-23 10:45|| Front Page Top

#4 They mean million. A supertanker can hold up to 500,000 Dead Weight Tons (2 million barrels). These are the largest of the tankers. Most hold half that.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-11-23 10:53|| 2009-11-23 10:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Ahem, there's a lack of details here: how did the pirate boat sink?

IIUC, large (huge) boats like a tanker actually can be very fast; the evasive protocol involves getting as fast as possible & zig-zaging, the trail of waves made by such a large boat can make navigation very difficult for the smaller pirate boats and even over-turn them.
Unless there was an exchange for fire and the pirates got it through an automatic GL or something, I think it sinked due to this evasive manoeuvering (as is the goal, really).

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-11-23 11:33|| 2009-11-23 11:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Surf's up!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-11-23 19:29|| 2009-11-23 19:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Iranian tanker - Somali pirates

Red on red.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-11-23 20:08|| 2009-11-23 20:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Hadji don't surf....

Posted by abu do you love ">abu do you love 2009-11-23 21:43|| 2009-11-23 21:43|| Front Page Top

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