Tuesday 15th October 2024
Difficulty: Very hard
Oil tankers (Quiz #697)
Photo by Georg Eiermann (Unsplash)
1. How long does it take to turn an oil tanker through 180 degrees? For example, a Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC), roughly 330m long, laden with 300,000 tonnes of oil, travelling at 16 knots (about 18 mph).
2. The very largest oil tankers are Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC) and Ultra Large Crude Carriers (ULCC). But which of these is a term for a smaller oil tanker, with a capacity of around 50,000 tonnes of oil?
3. Which of these spills from oil tankers was the worst, in terms of the amount of oil released into the environment?
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