No it won’t. The amount of bunker fuel they carry is relatively trivial compared to the amounts we usually recognize as an environmental disaster
Don’t get me wrong, the fuel is terrible for the environment, just nothing on the scale of humans fucking up the environment. The engine(s) alone on VLCCs will harm sea life for miles
I’ve been diving near cruise ships and near shipping channels. The ships are so far away I can barely see them on the horizon at the surface, but when they blow their horn, it fucking hurts down to my bones if I’m under water
Submarine SONAR pings are a magnitude more powerful
They salvage the ships because that metal is fucking valuable, and anyone can claim salvage rights to it
How deep is the Strait? If both Iran and US keep sinking ships, how long until it becomes in-navigeable?
The question is, how many of the large ships like tankers and container ships are there? Not something you replace next week.
Roughly 10,000 tankers worldwide, with about 1,000 active at any one time.
No
Yeah, looks like the shipping lanes are around 300ft deep and 2mi wide.
They will refloat a ship and tow it to be salvaged. Even a cruise ship will fuck the environment if it breaks up underwater.
No it won’t. The amount of bunker fuel they carry is relatively trivial compared to the amounts we usually recognize as an environmental disaster
Don’t get me wrong, the fuel is terrible for the environment, just nothing on the scale of humans fucking up the environment. The engine(s) alone on VLCCs will harm sea life for miles
I’ve been diving near cruise ships and near shipping channels. The ships are so far away I can barely see them on the horizon at the surface, but when they blow their horn, it fucking hurts down to my bones if I’m under water
Submarine SONAR pings are a magnitude more powerful
They salvage the ships because that metal is fucking valuable, and anyone can claim salvage rights to it