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What are the hazards caused by oil tanker spills in sea and mention them?
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∙ 12y ago
Depends on the material spilled, the amount, the location, and the eco-senstivity.
Material spilled
- Soluble materials: Cause local water quality impact, potential sea life damage, but quickly diluted. Not recoverable
- Light hydrocarbons: Some wildlife damage. Evaporates relatively quickly. Recoverable to some extent.
- Heavy Hydrocarbons: Incorporates into water column a well as floats on surface. Can impact beaches and sea floor. Wildlife damage. SOme recovery before weathering occurs. Impacts may last for years.
Amount spilled
Large amounts allow height volume but low percentage recovery. Low volumes more easily jandled by natural processes
Location/Eco-sensitivity
Spills near wildlife sanctuaries, fishing and breeding grounsds are regarded as being more significant to the ecology. Spills near tourist beaches are important financially.
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There are a lot of unreported oil spills?
Large spills, particularly tanker spills, are visible from the sky. There is close monitoring of spills in the US Gulf of Mexico, for even small spills from tanker loading. However, not all accidental discharges are not reported in the US. See link. Other countries may not report minor spills, particularly if they occur in on land and in remote areas where the environmental impact is limited. There has been efforts to increase international cooperation in reporting spills. See related links.
Do Tsunamis cause oil spills?
They can if they go anywere near an oil tanker or an oil rig
How can oil spills happen?
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What was the name of the oil tanker in Alaska that was one of the most harmful spills in the US?
Exxon Valdez.
If a tanker truck carrying 3020 of concentrated sulfuric acid solution tips over and spills its load?
the world will blow up
Do fires and explosions cause oil spills?
The fire aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig was caused by the uncontrollable flow of hydrocarbons from the beneath the rig floor, and from the goose-neck (flexible hose) on the derrick, coming in contact with an ignition source, which was most likely the engines which provide power to the rig. More generally, a blow out does not necessarily cause fires on rigs. The blow out of the Macondo well happen very quickly and at very high rates of gas flow. An oil spill caused by a tanker or storage tanker accident would not normally create a fire.
Which type of oil spills are the most harmful?
Generally, oil spills that occur in close to fishing areas, environmentally sensitive wetlands, and beaches are the most harmful. Some of the large tanker accidents have occurred in the open seas, and the environmental impact was minimal.
What is the gulf of Mexico oil spill?
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How are cows affected by oil spills?
Oil spills occur around the world, so many types of animals and plant life can be affected. Oil spills can occur on land and in the oceans. But I could not find any case where cows had been affected. Most common is environmental damage to marine life due to pipeline breaks, tanker accidents, production platform accidents and drilling rig accidents.
What are effects of oil pollution in Venezuela?
The effects are oil spills and tanker damage to the environment, it hurts the fishers from fishing with the tiles, the country leads South America in carbon dioxide due to the environmental city.
What is IMO type 3 ships?
A type 3 ship is a chemical tanker intended to transport 'chapter 17' products with sufficiently severe environmental and safety hazards which require a moderate degree of containment to increase survival capability in a damaged condition. Thus, a type 1 ship is a chemical tanker intended for the transportation of products considered to present the greatest overall hazard and type 2 and type 3 for products of progressively lesser hazards.
Do tanker trucks need to stop at rail road crossing?
Hazmat haulers do. A food grade tanker, dry bulk tanker, water tanker, etc. would not.
