There are mounting fears of an environmental disaster off the coast of England after a cargo ship collided with an oil tanker in the North Sea.

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  1. This is 100% hypothetical. I know ZERO about this except what I just watched: Is there no electronic system to detect and automatically stop or avoid an incident like this? Even if there were nobody on the ship at all and it was fully automated, is there not a system to detect the transponder of the other ship, do a simple collision calculation, and stop the ship in the same way PTC works the Rail industry?

  2. Toxic waste isn’t a problem .. after all UNESCO did approve 1 million Litres of Fukushima nuclear waste to be dumped into the North Pacific .. no problem with that problem .

  3. The most likely picture is this: the captain himself was on watch on the bridge of the container ship. Since there are apparently only 3 navigators on this ship: the captain, the chief officer and the 2nd mate. The watch of 2nd mate from 1200-1600, the watch of the chief officer from 1600- 2000 hours. This means that the captain was on the bridge of the vessel and was engaged in other matters, rather than proper lookout and handling of the vessel.

  4. Why aren't you pointing out the obvious to that guy who is assuming that cyanide containers had broken? We don't even know the damage to that ship yet, it doesn't seem to be taking on water. And cargo is not kept in the bow of a ship. Great example of people opening their mouths with assumptions before the facts are known, and a press that just runs with anything the least bit sensational, whether it's true or not.

  5. are they not environmentalists? Sweden and England have very best environmentalist in the world, i think. how could this happen in front of their faces? they have to stop what they do if they are really care about earth?

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