Supership by Noel Mostert

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Spawned by the relentless economics of oil, the gargantuan crude carriers called supertankers are today plying the seas in ever growing numbers. Their coming has already marked by disasters on an unprecedented scale. Supership is an electrifying account of this portentous phenomenon. It makes plain the threat the tankers pose to the safety of all coastal life and to the fragile ecosystem of the ocean themselves. To ignore this book is to invite catastrophe and therefore should be compulsory reading for all.