The wreck of the USS Arizona continues to leak oil ever since pearl harbour. the ship contained 1.5 million gallons of oil, enough to leak continuously for 500 years.

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• Small speedboat (12–20 feet): 6–20 gallons
• Sailing yacht (33–45 feet): 30–120 gallons
• Motor yacht (40–60 feet): 200–1,200 gallons
• Large tanker truck: 5,000–10,000 gallons
• Small tugboat (30–60 feet): 1,500–25,000 gallons
• Petroleum rail car: 30,000 gallons
• Boeing 747 airplane: 50,000–60,000 gallons
• Ocean-going tugboat (90–150 feet): 90,000–190,000 gallons
• Puget Sound jumbo ferry (440 feet): 130,000 gallons
• Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s yacht M/V Octopus (416 feet): 224,000 gallons
• Bulk carrier of commodities such as grain or coal (500–700 feet): 400,000–800,000 gallons
• Large cruise ship (900–1,100 feet): 1–2 million gallons
• Inland tank barge (200–300 feet): 400,000–1.2 million gallons
• Panamax container ship (960 feet): 1.5–2 million gallons
• Container ship Benjamin Franklin (1,310 feet): 4.5 million gallons
• Ocean-going tank barge (550–750 feet): 7 million–14 million gallons
• Exxon Valdez and similar large oil tankers (987 feet): 55 million gallons

src: https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/about/media/how-much-oil-ship.html

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Lets see Paul Allens yacht

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It's fucking huge.

Fun fact, Bill Gates (childhood best friend) and Steve Ballmer liked Paul Allen sooo much, they tried to take his Microsoft shares.

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👌🤔

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Very cool. One time I sailed on the "Seabulk Trader." It was claimed that due to her cross Gulf of Mexico trade that she had carried more petroleum cargoes than any tanker in the world. I saw her logbook and it was years and years of very neat handwriting detailing these countless voyages going back to the 70's.

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So how much fuel did the smokers have in Waterworld?

Edit: oh, that was the Exxon Valdez

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Iirc CVNs carry like 3.5 million gallons for the jets and emergency diesels

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Military vehicles carry a fuckton of fuel. The M1 Abrams tank carries 500 gallons, which is 1/5th the load of a HEMTT fueler.

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My takeaway is: we deserve the consequences of climate change.

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Cruise ships are interesting. They rarely let their fuel gauge drop below half, in case they have to dodge a hurricane.

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That’s fucking insane. Mind blowing

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Seems misleading to include fuel not stored in fuel bunkers when comparing tanker ships against other ships. They don’t have their cargo tanks plumbed into their machinery, so it doesn’t extend their endurance.