Re: W. on the Environment

[Ronn Blankenship]

At 12:49 AM 5/19/01 -0500, Dan wrote:

>Few tankers are double hulled.  I don't see how not shipping out of Alaska
>is going to solve problems.  From what I read in the National Geographic
>site, they are actually taking a lot of care to ensure that such an accident
>doesn't happen again.  This includes using three tugs to escorts all ships
>out past the rocks, with the tugs having enough power to overwhelm a ship's
>captain who would ground the ship.


How about preventing the ship from being grounded by keeping the captain 
*sober*, which IIRC was a reported as a significant factor in the _Exxon 
Valdez_ accident?


-- Ronn!  :)