Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy

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Plum said:
No it doesn't look good.

But how the **** do 2 ships like that collide in the North Sea in daylight when one of them is at anchor? Heads should roll but I bet they don't.
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However, unusually, this is one of just ten oil tankers enlisted in a US government programme which is designed to supply the armed forces with fuel during times of armed conflict or national emergency.

now im not one to do conspiracy but...
 
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Plum said:
No it doesn't look good.

But how the **** do 2 ships like that collide in the North Sea in daylight when one of them is at anchor? Heads should roll but I bet they don't.
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Visibility can be awful in the North Sea but basic navigation aids can mitigate that.

It’s very puzzling and the conspiracy theories are going into overdrive.
 
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Ernie Shackleton said:
Visibility can be awful in the North Sea but basic navigation aids can mitigate that.

It’s very puzzling and the conspiracy theories are going into overdrive.
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No reports of bad weather but it's quite busy in the area. But, the North Sea is quite wide, I reckon a bloke drinking tea on the bridge of the freighter might have seen an oil tanker.
 
Sounds like a lot of people (near to 40) to be manning a relatively small cargo ship and a tanker. When the pirate attacks were going on near to Somalia and Ethiopia they were saying that even the big cargo ships would only have a small number of crew on board.
 
balkan tiger said:
Sounds like a lot of people (near to 40) to be manning a relatively small cargo ship and a tanker. When the pirate attacks were going on near to Somalia and Ethiopia they were saying that even the big cargo ships would only have a small number of crew on board.
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Small container ships generally have 13 crew, large container ships 31 and tankers can have 20-30, so 37 crew across both ships doesn’t seem particularly high.
 
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