• Taldan@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      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

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        17 hours ago

        Are you agreeing or disagreeing? Because harming the sealife for miles means fucking up the environment. As you said even the hydraulic fluids from the engines are very harmful.

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          16 hours ago

          They’re disagreeing because you implied it would be salvaged out of some environmental concern. But they don’t give 2 fucks about that. It would be salvaged because money is everything and they only care about making profit.