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Welcome to Maritime Replicas (1263 words) |
 | With the main oil producers concentrated in the Middle East and the main consumers being concentrated in the West, the overall size of tankers was generally limited by the maximum that could use the Suez Canal. |
| Tankers were built with longitudinal, as well as transverse, bulkheads, to provide a large number of separate tanks for the oil -a precaution to minimize the escape of oil in the case of the vessel being holed. |
| The biggest growth in size was in the oil tankers due very largely to extraneous reasons. |
| GMA: How Big is an Oil Tanker? (472 words) |
| To carry a large amount of oil, tankers are designed to be quite large. |
| The Exxon Valdez was considered a midsized oil tanker measuring 967 feet long and 166 feet wide. |
| By measuring an average size oil tanker, such as the Exxon Valdez, students will have a much better understanding of how large a typical oil tanker is. In addition, the students will be asked to sketch a scale drawing of a typical oil tanker. |
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