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Your major story on Jan. 6 was “Giant oil spill threatens Shetland isles.”
In the story you said, “A storm-lashed supertanker ran onto rocks in heavy seas . . . and began spilling oil . . . a major ecological disaster.” And you also said the tanker ” . . . lost power in mountainous seas-waves of 19 to 22 feet churned up by 70 m.p.h. winds.”
Cost Guard officials said the severe weather would prevent quick containment or cleanup.
Why isn’t there a law that oil tankers cannot sail during severe weather?
