https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM [Interviewer:] Well, if this wasn’t safe, why did it have 80,000 tonnes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM [Interviewer:] Well, if this wasn’t safe, why did it have 80,000 tonnes of oil on it? [Senator Collins:] Well, I’m not saying it wasn’t safe, it’s just perhaps not quite as safe as some of the other ones. [Interviewer:] Why? [Senator Collins:] Well, some of them are built so the front doesn’t fall off at all. [Interviewer:] Wasn’t this built so the front wouldn’t fall off? [Senator Collins:] Well, obviously not. [Interviewer:] “How do you know?” [Senator Collins:] Well, ‘cause the front fell off, and 20,000 tons of crude oil spilled into the sea, caught fire. It’s a bit of a give-away.” I would just like to make the point that that is not normal. [Interviewer:] Well, what sort of standards are these oil tankers built to? [Senator Collins:] Oh, very rigorous … maritime engineering standards. [Interviewer:] What sort of things? [Senator Collins:] Well the front’s not supposed to fall off, for a start.