The Scourge of the American Petroleum Tankers That Prowl the British Columbia Coast - by INGMAR LEE (U.S. ATBs)

But it’s already known how to move oil at sea, a tanker, That’s been done for many more years than ATBs,’

If you think of an ATB as an improvement over a wire tug towing a barge, yeah, the ATB is an improvement,

But if you think of it as a tanker with two new failure points, the coupling system and a short-handed crew then it’s a tanker - with two extra failure points.

Not coincidentally in the last two years that is exactly the failures that have occurred. The Nathan E Stewart had the single person in the wheelhouse fall asleep and the Jake Shearer came apart.

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