halefall sorry if it's a little hard to understand, it wouldn't let me post it unless I got rid of all the line breaks.
“Senator Collins, thanks for coming in.” “It’s a great pleasure, thank you.”
“This ship that was involved in the incident of western Australia this week-“ “Yeah, the one the front fell off?” “Yeah” “Well that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that
Point.”
“Well how is it un-typical?” “Well there are a lot of these ships going round the world all the time and very seldom does anything like this happen, I just don’t want people thinking that these tankers aren’t safe.” “Was this tanker safe?” “Well I was thinking more about the other ones.” “The ones that are safe?” “Yeah, the ones where the front doesn’t fall off.” “Well if this one was safe, why did it have 80 thousand tonnes of oil on it?” “I’m not saying it’s not safe I’m just saying that it’s not quite as safe as some of the other ones” “Why?”** “Well some of them are built so the front doesn’t fall of at all.”** “Wasn’t this one built so the front wouldn’t fall off?” “Well, obviously not.” “How do you know?” “Well cause the front fell off, and 20 thousand tonnes of crude oil spilt into the sea and caught fire, it’s a bit of a giveaway, and I’d just like to make the point that that is not normal.” “What sort of standards are these oil tankers built to?”“Oh, very rigours, maritime engineering standards.” “What sort of thing?” “Well the fronts not supposed to fall off, for a start.” “What other things?” “Well there are, regulations governing the materials they can be made of.”
“What materials?” “Well cardboards out.” “And?” “No cardboard derivatives”
“Like, paper?” “No paper, no string, no Sellotape.” “Rubber?” “No, rubbers out. Um, they gotta have a steering wheel, there’s a minimum crew requirement.”
“What’s the minimum crew?” “One, I suppose.” “So the allegations that they’re just designed to carry as much oil as possible-“ “That’s ludicrous, absolutely ludicrous, these are very very strong vessels.” “So what happened in this case?” “Well the front fell off in this case by all means, but it’s very unusual.” “But Senator Collins, why did the front fall off?” “A wave hit it.”
“A wave hit it?” “A wave, hit the ship.”
“Is that unusual?” “Ooo yeah, at sea? Chance in a million.” “So what do you do to protect the environment in cases like this?” “The ship was towed outside the environment.” “Into another environment.” “No no no, It’s been towed beyond the environment.” “No, but from one environment to the other.”** “No, it’s beyond the environment, it’s not in the environment.”** “Well what’s out there?”** “Nothing’s out there.”**
“Well there must be something out there.” “There’s nothing out there, all there is is sea, and birds, and fish.”
“And?” “And 20 thousand tonnes of crude oil.”
“And?” “And a fire.”
“And?” “And the part of the ship that the front fell off.”