Talk:Prestige oil spill

message: * The caption of the current photo is wrong... those people cannot be cleaning the coastline in March 2002 since the ship sank in November. --SugarKane (talk) 17:02, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Questions and comments

message: There are two lines referring to typefaces. They appear to be duplicates. -Ahruman 09:39, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplicate? 

message: * I have several comments on this page. First thing is that this page needs to have the same unit of measurement across the entire article. It constantly changes between tons to Cubed meters to gallons. Pick one. Besides, there are two types of Tons: the Short ton and the metric ton.  The money currency should be the same, and should attempt to account or state the devaluation of the money. The article needs lots of work with spelling and organization.--Guille2015 06:06, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: "5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (5 trillion) tons of fuel oil were spilled in the incident." 
First off, that's not 5 trillion. Second, Earth's Mass: 6.58542823 * 10^21 short tons... "tons of fuel oil spilled":  5.0 * 10^21 short tons ( 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 )
So this spill leaked 75% of the Earth's mass in oil? 
Even using the 5 trillion value, ( 5,000,000,000,000 ) is completely wrong. 
http://www.environmenttimes.net/article.cfm?pageID=148 states "64,000 tonnes of oil" spilled. This is 15,000,000 gallons (15 million) -- 64.37.159.134 21:46, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: How many tons of oil, again?

message: Could someone verify this with court records?  I cannot provide verification for this since I don't have access to them.  Presumably the ABS press release page will include an update, but maybe not.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dj245 (talk • contribs) 00:17, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: ABS case dismissed

message: I know this probably isn't the place, but they seriously blamed the CAPTAIN for this? What was he supposed to do? It wasn't his ship, he was just driving it. I'm no maritime expert, but it certainly sounds to me like it would have been better to allow the ship to dock in one of the three ports rather than sending it on its way, and in either case there is nothing the captain could have done differently to change anything. He didn't cause the rupture, and he couldn't fix it. So they made him stay out on the rough seas until the ship capsized and spilled ALL of its oil, and then arrested him, made him wait TEN YEARS (some of his last years, at age 78) wondering whether he was going to be found guilty or not, only to find him innocent after all that time? Seriously. So he didn't obey the authorities right away; that had no bearing on whether he was responsible for the accident. In fact, it sounds like he was resisting an order which he knew damn well would result in the ship sinking. And they charge him for both things. You can't win, can you?
That and trying to press lawsuits against organizations like the ABS is ridiculous (as are most lawsuits these days). They don't have the budget, or in most cases the authority to go around and inspect every ship. They are pencil pushers; it would take a much bigger organization to keep track of every single tanker out there. Sometimes accidents happen, but if you have to charge anyone, charge and sue the people who owned and operated the ship, not the captain and some random bureau that didn't have much to do with the matter anyway.
People don't like the oil industry (although they don't seem to mind driving much), so whenever something like this happens they just lask out and start suing the first obvious targets like they think it'll make a difference or make their point. It isn't as easy as they seem to think..45Colt 22:47, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Captain.