A rusting oil tanker off Yemen’s coast is at risk of exploding.

[the other mike]

And nobody can do anything about it because the Houthi's are forbidding access.

Five miles off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea, there's a rusting oil tanker.

It's been compared to a ticking time bomb. That's because its cargo is 1 million barrels of crude oil waiting to explode or pour out into a spill that could potentially be four times the size of the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster off the coast of Alaska.

A rusting oil tanker off Yemen’s coast is at risk of exploding. It could cut off humanitarian aid to millions. - The World from PRX

Ben Huynh, a researcher at Stanford University, joined The World's host Marco Werman from his home in California to discuss the potential disaster an oil spill could cause on the Red Sea coasts.

theworld.org

 

[fncceo]

A rusting oil tanker off Yemen’s coast is at risk of exploding.​

An oil taker will burn, it won't explode.

However, I am very concerned that because it's so far away, there won't be enough cameras there to see what is sure to be a very cool sight.

 

[the other mike]

An oil taker will burn, it won't explode.

However, I am very concerned that because it's so far away, there won't be enough cameras there to see what is sure to be a very cool sight.

It used to happen a lot until they began inerting tanks in the 70's.

[But crucial processes driven by the boiler system have ceased—most notably, “inerting,” in which inert gases are pumped into the tanks where the crude is stored, to neutralize flammable hydrocarbons that rise off the oil. Before inerting became a commonplace safety measure, in the nineteen-seventies, tankers blew up surprisingly often, and with lethal consequences: in December, 1969, three of them exploded within seventeen days, killing four men. ...]

The Ship That Became a Bomb

Stranded in Yemen’s war zone, a decaying supertanker has more than a million barrels of oil aboard. If—or when—it explodes or sinks, thousands may die.

www.newyorker.com

Abandoned oil tanker off Yemen coast at risk of exploding

The damaged ship is threatening massive environmental damage to Red Sea marine life, desalination factories and international shipping routes.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[JGalt]

Hell, it's Yemen. Fire that puppy up and let it burn.

 

[Unkotare]

Reminds me of the Great Molasses flood in Boston. Except that it is completely different.

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

However, I am very concerned that because it's so far away, there won't be enough cameras there to see what is sure to be a very cool sight.

My exact thought.

 

[the other mike]

cameras there to see what is sure to be a very cool sight.

I bet you loved 9/11

A demolition that would have made Pay-Per-View
if it weren't for all the bodies (and lack of bodies)

 

[the other mike]

Maybe we can just drop the MOAB on her for extra drama.

 

[Mushroom]

An oil taker will burn, it won't explode.

And normally not even that. Crude oil is damned near impossible to burn, even when you are trying to do so.

 

[the other mike]

And normally not even that. Crude oil is damned near impossible to burn, even when you are trying to do so.

Read post #3,
douche waffle.

 

[Mushroom]

Read post #3,
douche waffle.

Which once again had not a damned thing to do with the fact that normally crude oil does not burn.

Tossing out an insult along with that nonsensical response to what I said only tells me you are not to be taken seriously at all.

 

[the other mike]

Which once again had not a damned thing to do with the fact that normally crude oil does not burn.

Tossing out an insult along with that nonsensical response to what I said only tells me you are not to be taken seriously at all.

I'm not here to worry about what anonymous dweebs named mushroom think of me.

 

[Mushroom]

I'm not here to worry about what anonymous dweebs named mushroom think of me.

OK, thank you for letting us know that Mr. Conspiracy Troll.

 

[the other mike]

OK, thank you for letting us know that Mr. Conspiracy Troll.

Who's trolling on whose thread cheese muffin breath ?

 

[the other mike]

And normally not even that. Crude oil is damned near impossible to burn, even when you are trying to do so.

You know not to go down my rabbit holes

Here's one about my Marine brother they moved to the CT board of course.

 

[Mushroom]

Who's trolling on whose thread cheese muffin breath ?

Very nice. However, what was the ship carrying?

The Aulac Fortune was built in 2010. Ship tracking data shows it last loaded around 6,660 tons of gasoline, most of which was delivered to Guangzhou on Sunday and Monday.

Oil tanker explodes and burns off Hong Kong's coast

"It felt like when there is a strong typhoon, when the wind shakes your doors violently," one witness said. "I thought maybe there was an earthquake."

www.nbcnews.com

Gee, notice it had gasoline, not crude oil.

Thank you for giving me a great reference. I never said a damned thing about gasoline vapors not exploding, I said that crude oil is almost impossible to burn.

Care to try again?

 

[the other mike]

Very nice. However, what was the ship carrying?

Oil tanker explodes and burns off Hong Kong's coast

"It felt like when there is a strong typhoon, when the wind shakes your doors violently," one witness said. "I thought maybe there was an earthquake."

www.nbcnews.com

Gee, notice it had gasoline, not crude oil.

Thank you for giving me a great reference. I never said a damned thing about gasoline vapors not exploding, I said that crude oil is almost impossible to burn.

Care to try again?

Leave it to NBC to have a deceiving title.

 

[Mushroom]

Leave it to NBC to have a deceiving title.

Try looking into what the ship was actually carrying. The title is accurate, you are supposed to do more than just read the headline after all. But the dead giveaway is the fact is had carried over 6 thousand tons of gasoline. Gasoline vapors are highly explosive, crude oil is not.

In much the same way, flour and dust are almost impossible to catch fire. However, atomized both are extremely combustible. You can pour gasoline onto a huge pile of flour, and it will just smolder. But atomize the flour into dust (like in a grain silo), and it can explode with just a light discharge of static electricity.

 

[the other mike]

But atomize the flour into dust (like in a grain silo), and it can explode with just a light discharge of static electricity.

Maybe atomized flour brought down all the towers on 9/11.

 

[irosie91]

Which once again had not a damned thing to do with the fact that normally crude oil does not burn.

Tossing out an insult along with that nonsensical response to what I said only tells me you are not to be taken seriously at all.

BUT IT SPILLS