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Still Wakes the Deep. Still Wakes the Deep is a 2024 psychological horror video game developed by The Chinese Room and published by Secret Mode. The story follows an electrician who is trapped on a damaged oil drilling platform in the North Sea in the 1970s, having no way to escape while being pursued by mysterious monsters under harsh weather ...
Alaska historian Terrence Cole Since the completion of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System in 1977, the government of the state of Alaska has been reliant on taxes paid by oil producers and shippers. Prior to 1976, Alaska's personal income tax rate was 14.5 percent—the highest in the United States. The gross state product was $8 billion, and Alaskans earned $5 billion in personal income. Thirty ...
SS. Manhattan. (1961) SS Manhattan was an oil tanker constructed at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, that became the first commercial ship to cross the Northwest Passage in 1969. Having been built as an ordinary tanker in 1962, she was refitted for ice navigation during this voyage with an icebreaker bow in 1968–69.
The first oil tankers were two sail-driven tankers that were built in 1863 on England's River Tyne. [ 5 ] The first ocean-going oil-tank steamer, the Vaderland , was designed and built by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company of the United Kingdom for the American-Belgian Red Star Line in 1873, [ 3 ] [ 5 ] although the vessel's use was soon ...
SS Arrow. Coordinates: 45.467049°N 61.104376°W. The SS Arrow was an oil tanker built by Bethlehem Steel Company, Sparrows Point, Baltimore, Maryland, in 1948 as the tanker Olympic Games . Renamed Sea Robin in 1960 and finally Arrow in 1962, the ship was a Liberian-registered tanker owned by the Sun Navigation Company. [1]
Rear house, full hull, midships pipeline. An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products. There are two basic types of oil tankers: crude tankers and product tankers. [1] Crude tankers move large quantities of unrefined crude oil from its point of extraction to refineries. [1]
The salvage operation of the oil tanker MV Sounion, which was recently attacked by Iran-aligned Houthi militants, is about to begin, the European Union's mission in the Red Sea, Aspides, said on ...
In the 1971 feature film Get Carter starring Michael Caine, the Esso Hibernia appeared in the background of a shootout scene by the docks.; In 2019, The Dreadnoughts, a Canadian folk punk band, released "Roll Northumbria," a song which details an alternate version of the Northumbria's short lifespan, in which the cracks in the hull cause an oil spill.