Sentences with phrase «sinking oil tanker»

«The Finest Hours,» based on the true story of the valiant 1952 Coast Guard rescue of a sinking oil tanker off the coast of Massachusetts, splits in two much like the wounded vessel at its heart.

Set in 1952 the movie tells the story of a daring rescue by the Coast Guard of the crew on a sinking oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod during a...

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Japanese losses were high — three out of the nine aircraft carriers were sunk, as well as two oil tankers, 395 carrier - based planes, and over 2,000 sailors and airmen.

Last week the propaganda campaign pushing Kinder Morgan «s controversial Trans Mountain oil tanker - pipeline proposal sunk to a new low.

«If a Saudi tanker is sunk with 2 million barrels of oil, people are going to start worrying about the security of the sea lanes.

In August 2001, a sunken US military oil tanker, the USS Mississinewa, began to leak into Ulithi Lagoon, in Yap state, part of the Federated States of Micronesia.

The study, which appears in the Annals of Internal Medicine, included 501 fishermen who helped clean up spilled oil after the tanker Prestige sank off the coast of Spain in November 2002.

The SS Pendleton, a T - 2 oil tanker bound for Boston, was literally ripped in half, trapping more than 30 sailors inside its rapidly - sinking stern.

A couple of years pass and a plant is erected where the tanker was sunk to clean up the massive oil spill that was left.

This is an interesting experiment, similar to the Prestige tanker that sunk off Spain in deep water and leaked oil for awhile....

And with the way tar sands oil sinks in water, a tanker or pipeline spill in the area would be devastating for the region.