European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 05, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes saturday August 5, 1978 Bantry Ireland the very Large crude Oil Carrier universe Ireland known off Dally As a Vicc and commonly As a supertanker although the superlative flu about As Wen As a warped window screen was lashed to a con Crete jetty in the Middle of this Bay that once washed out mountains to gain us Vicc had just finished pumping j10, 000 tons of crude of into storage tanks on an Island in the Bay called buddy Island and now the ship Al percent of which usually asunder water Rode High and revealed its full capacity to damage the life around i dirty ugly steel without a porthole or Gangway port Rose nearly seven stories. The vessel was 1,112 feet Long More than any merchant ship or liner Ever seen to new Yor Harbor. It dearly was built with the intention to offend the Eye the Vicc has no Bow Only brutish Metal forearm held against the water. The universe Ireland the first of the Gulf supertanker is 10 years old now an age at which it must be suspect the hulls of these vessels at the Start were discovered to be weak at the a ship such As this carrying us enormous Load of Oil were to Nave an Accident in Bantry Bay the effect would be calamitous. A couple of years ago a Vicc began to pump Oil int Bantry Bay just a Little Oil for a Vicc Acci Dent a Mere portion of its belly coming up 1 the damage was widespread. The Cliff in it of the House in which i am staying Cliffs Are 25 and so feet High still Are Black n the crude Oil Slicks we have been told smother con a body that causes one third of the1 s oxygen to be produced. Of causes sea i to die and fish to disappear. An Oil Slicko ething that does More than spoil a Day s Ning at the Beach. The word ecology too often is associated with colleges i the thing still most feared. The move lit actually is just another Way of mention survival past Winter in Queens i remember Reading a the Book super ship by Noel Mostert i the plan of International Oil men is to con t ships three times As big As the uni Ireland tankers of 1 million ions with intention of then building deep Waters to service these tankers out in the Ocean Inch places As Philadelphia or new York his Book Mostert says that one such or breaking up could spill in one placet the world s tankers and other vessels do r the period of a year. If one of them Ever up outside new York or Puia Dephia you could lose much of a Seaboard All at , Here to Bantry ssh won Vicc holds a Black a to the neck of this the most breathtaking body of Bay is at the Southern tip of Ireland. It snot Miles wide and it has admitted Toman s technology that to is 160 feet deep in most parts although it privacy and people who live Here believe that the Bay pokes a wet Finger deep into the Earth. The Bay is 20 Miles Long with mountains coming Down into water on both sides. In some places the mountains Are sparkling Green in an afternoon Sun while those directly across the Bay Are Black with rain Clouds swirling about them As if to re mind you of another Power. Then a half mile farther along the Bay shafts of Light com through the Clouds to brighten the mountains. To goes on like this varied and stunning until the mountains end and White fog covers the water and out of the fog conies the first Waves of the Atlantic. The Waves ride in at the last Mountain and slap against the rocks. Columns of Spray Rise High up the Side of the Mountain which is called the Vicc could change All this into a Large Greasy Hole. And there was Little satisfaction in watching this one supertanker pull out of Bantry on the night tide for Gulf has six of these ships operating and three of them come into Bantry each the universe Ireland left a was again Low to the water its tanks fixed with Salt water. It had stayed in Bantry Only for hours. The crewmen most of whom Don t speak English went into the town of woo gulped a few drinks bought a few things and then got on the tug for the ride Back to the Vicc. The journey now was to go to Kuwait 30 Days Oft Raveling at 14 knots. At Kuwait the Vicc re Mains is Miles offshore takes on its tons of Oil to less than a Day and then pulls out again for Bantry another 32 Days away and at Bantry there would be another few hours in a Small and the vessel on which they trawl is an to it is a prisoner s life rather than a Sailor s. Fuel switch is suggested conversion of new port to Congress says. Of i re8ion s electricity generating plants consume about 71 million barrels of Oil a year 18 percent of All new England consumption. Ass on the Cliff and watched the Pei Okerta my it. Lights on the lonely water did not cause you to think of a storm at sea or Aport on the other Side of the world. Rather the acc reminded me Only of right work in a but the presence and acceptance of the supertanker to Bantry is something that bet Ter be understood by All those who get involved to the arguments Over the need for Dean air and water and the demands of to Dusty. Members of the Sierra dub would have required Pul motors during an evening to the Anchor hotel in Bantry. How bad was spill Here 1 asked Paddy Minehane the town Draper. Bad i wish we had another one tonight he said. Everybody in Bantry got paid for cleaning it we sold Hay to them twice a Farmer next to him said. How did you do that he was used the Hay to soak up the Oil and they d pay us when they saw the Load of dirt Hay. I drove the Hay past them and they paid me and then i drove the Hay Back around again and they paid me again for the same Load. It was a tremendous thing. Everybody sold a Load of Hay twice to and old Man sitting on a Bench an under1taker who retired last year coded out the Oil spill was the second greatest thing to Hap pen in my life. God it was almost As Good As the Lusitania. I had a t Tousand bodies to front of me when the Lusitania went Down. I had to get so Many coffins i thought cd collapse a thousand bodies he was was near that anyway. It was wonder Ful you know. Then when we had the Oil spill Here it was the same spirit. Everybody was getting we considered the Oil spill our Christmas that year Paddy Minehane you have nothing against the tankers coming Here he was does. Everybody was for them coming Here. Everybody liked to when there was the spill. They la like it belter at the next about the Bay he was asked you can t eat he said. 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