• Senator Collins@aussie.zone
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    1 day ago

    Well there are a lot of these ships going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that tankers aren’t safe.

    • miskOP
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      1 day ago

      It’s a matter of perspective. Maybe normal is that a small ship crashes into a tanker every 10 years and that was just one of those.

      I have no idea if tankers are safe or not but it would probably be easy to do this on purpose. This is one of the reasons why that’s improbable. No state actor would do such thing because even if the intent was malice then you’d prefer doing things below threshold that requires a response from another side (like cutting undersea cables).