Annie Jacobsen

On the morning of January 17, 1966, a real-life dirty bomb crisis occurred over Palomares, Spain. A Strategic Air Command bomber flying with four armed hydrogen Bombs - with yields between 70 kilotons and 1.45 megatons - collided midair with a refueling tanker over the Spanish countryside.

American Journalist

Ricky Whittle

I remember 'Rain Man' with Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman with all the Lamborghinis being lifted off the tanker. I was obsessed with this car. Absolutely obsessed with this car. It was my dream, and to finally drive one and own one was incredible.

British Actor

Helmut Sohmen

Given the international nature of the tanker industry, it is important that global regimes are applied consistently and universally, not local or regional rules that do not recognise the total commercial and operating backdrop.

Austrian Lawyer

Elizabeth Warren

Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buying oil tankers. This is not a financial system that has calmed down and is there to serve the American people.

American Public Servant

Sherrod Brown

We know that, too often, oil and other hazardous materials are shipped across the country on aging tankers. Too many communities have seen what happens when trains derail and in some cases catch fire.

American Politician

Buzz Aldrin

When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise.

American Astronaut

Roald Dahl

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

British Novelist

John Hoeven

Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than trucks, safer than rail.

Everybody has to build double-hull tankers, but charterers don't want to pay for the extra costs.

John Fredriksen

I've been in tankers for 50 years, and I like it. For me, it's still fun.

Norwegian Businessman

The word 'tanker' suggests a very large size, often storing thousands of tons of liquid.

Scale Implication

When 'tanker' is used, it usually carries a specific type of liquid, often mentioned alongside.

Cargo Specificity

'Tanker' may evoke concern due to potential accidents or spills, especially with oil tankers.

Environmental Concerns

This type of 'tanker' indicates a land vehicle, contrasting with 'tanker' as a ship.

Land Transport

'Tanker trucks can pose hazards due to flammable or toxic contents, and they require careful handling.

Hazard Awareness

Spotting these 'tankers' is common on highways, often making long journeys.

Highway Presence

A 'tanker' in this context refers to a person, a role within armored military forces.

Military Role

The term emphasizes the teamwork needed when operating a military tank.

Crew Unity

 oil sands wants to ship their bid him in their oil their dirty crude through these narrow passageways and he said please help me can you do a story and help us keep these oil tankers out of there so I tried to think what could I do that would help bring attention to this area this sensitive fragile habitat and I thought I could do a story on the

National Geographic...

 and now one of the largest financial institutions in the world, where I lead sustainable investing. Now, these institutions are like tankers, and working inside of them, I've come to appreciate what large wakes they can leave, and I've become convinced that the institution of the global capital markets,

How to make a profit...

 the largest coastal temperate rainforest ecosystem in the world. Some of the greatest densities of some of the most iconic and threatened species on the planet. And yet there's a proposal, of course, to build a pipeline to take huge tankers, 10 times the size of the Exxon Valdez,

Garth Lenz: The true...

 try to raise awareness of that realm. It's a rough coastline, it's not a place for tankers. And in my mind, you know it's not a question of "if" it's a question of when a spill will occur if these tankers do move into that area. It's just this incredible, incredible wild place.

Photographing Our Seas:...

 twenty seven thousand miles over a lifetime or twenty five times around the world and on that journey will use thirty one thousand three hundred fifty gallons of gasoline or enough to fill these three fuel tankers it's difficult to imagine but the invisible gas pumped

Car Footprint PIPE National...

 So with that in mind, I would like to share a few of my overviews with you now. Here we see cargo ships and oil tankers waiting outside the entry to the port of Singapore. This facility is the second-busiest in the world by terms of total tonnage,

What it feels like to...

 to form from dead plankton. So there's that issue. We drill these incredibly deep holes to get it. Then we pipe it, truck it and ship it in tankers across the world to refineries, which are these incredibly expensive industrial facilities

Kathy Hannun: How to...

 the ideal mixture that works to find how we put it together into products how that product will be stored and make sure it's good five year shelf life and how eventually we put hopefully on every rig and every tanker just like a fire

Substance to Stop Oil...

 in the distance we're on a sailboat with a mast that reaches up into the sky after a rough day at sea we finally reached the protected waters of the Prince William Sound this is where a tanker unleashed a catastrophic amount

Looking for Killer...

 solid it's heavy we have to vacuum this solid out of the tanker truck otherwise there's no way to reach the narcotics