European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 05, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Pooe 18 the stars and stripes saturday August 5, 1978 Bantry Ireland the very Large crude Oil Carrier universe Ireland known off Daby at Vicc and commonly As a supertanker although the superlative fits about As Well 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 its Vicc bad just finished pumping 110, 000 tons of crude Oil into storage tanks on an Island in the Bay called Chiddy Island and now the ship 80 percent of which usually founder water Rode High and revealed its full capacity to damage the life around i dirty ugly sled without a porthole or Gangway port Rose nearly seven stories. The vessel was Utt feet Long More than any merchant ship or liner Ever seen i 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 its enormous Load of Oil were to have 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 Bedy coming up,1 the damage was widespread. The Cliff in i of the Bouse in which i am staving Cliffs Are 2s and 80 feet High still Are Black ii the crude Oil Slicks we have been told smother a a body that causes one third of thei s oxygen to be produced. Oil causes sea i to die and fish to disappear. An Oil Slick thing that does More than spoil a Das no at the Beach. The word ecology too often is associated with colleges i the thing still most feared. The move at actually is just another Way of mention i Winter in Queens i remember Reading Elbe Book super ship by Noel Mostert a the plan of International Oil men is to con t ships three times As big As the uni Ireland tankers of 1 million tons with intention of then building deep water i to service these tankers out in the Ocean Uch places As Philadelphia or new York i his Book Mostert says that one such w 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 Pula Dephia you a lose much . For certainly Here in Bantry. a to the neck of this the most breathtaking body of Bay is at the Southern up of Ireland. It trove Miles wide and it has admitted Tomah a technology that to by deep a most parts although to re water retain h privacy and people who live Here believe that the Bay pokes a wet stage 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. It 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 satisfactions watching this one supertanker pull out of Bantry on the night tide for Gulf has six of these ships operating end three of them come into Bantry each the universe Ireland left it was again Low in the water its tanks filled 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 15 Miles offshore takes on its tons of Oilin 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 travel u an in it is a prisoner s life rather than a Sailor s. Fuel switch is suggested conversion of Newt Lity plants to Coal fuel could save at least 31 million barrels of Oil a year a re port to Congress says. ��lfum? the re8 on s plants consume about 71 million Bangs of Oil a year 18 percent of All new England consumption. E my its i gets on the lonely water did use you to think of a storm at sea or another Side of a the Vicc reminded me Only of night work in a Fiu uhe presence and acceptance of the supertanker in Bantry is something that bet Ter be understood by All Loose who get involved in the arguments Over the need for Dean air and water and the demands of Industry. Members of the Sierra club would have required Pul motors during an evening in the Anchor hotel in Bantry. / How bad was the Oil spill Here i asked Paddy Minehane the town Draper. Bad i wish we had another one he in Bantry got paid for cleaning it sold Hay to them twice a Farmer next to him did you do that he was asked. We used the Hay to soak up the Oil and they d pay us when they saw the Load of dirty 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 under taker who retired last year called out the on 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 i front of me when the Lusitania went Down. I had to get so Many coffins i thought i d collapse my a thousand bodies he was asked. It 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 Christma that year Paddy Minehane said. So you have nothing against the Tanker coming Here he was asked. Nobody does. Everybody was for them coming Here. Everybody liked h when there was the spill. They la like it better at the next what about the Bay he was asked you can t eat he said. All themen in the crowded room nodded. 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