Thanks for coming in. It's a great pleasure, thank you. This ship that was involved in the

incident off Western Australia this week... Yeah, the one the front fell off? Yeah. Yeah, that's not very typical.

I'd like to make that point. Well, how is it untypical? Well, there are a lot of these ships going

around the world all the time and very seldom does anything like this

happen I just don't want people thinking that tankers aren't safe.

Was this tankers safe? Well I was thinking more about the other ones.

The ones that are safe? Yeah, the ones the front doesn't fall off.

Well if this wasn't safe, why did it have 80,000 tons of oil on it?

Well, I'm not saying it wasn't safe, it's just perhaps not quite as safe as some of the other ones.

Why?

Well, some of them are built so the front doesn't fall off at all.

Wasn't this built so the front wouldn't fall off?

Well obviously not. How do you know? Well because the front fell off and

20,000 tons of crude oil spilled into the sea caught fire. It's a bit of a giveaway.

I just like to make the point that that is not normal. Well what sort of standards of these oil tankers built to?

Oh, very rigorous maritime engineering standards.

What sort of thing?

Well, the front's not supposed to fall off for a start.

And what other things?

Well, there are regulations governing the materials that they can be made of what

materials well cardboard's out and no cardboard derivatives like paper no paper no

string no cellotape rubber no rubber's out they've got to have a steering wheel. There's a minimum crew requirement.

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