Completed the following sentence: Modern oil tankers can be a threat to the environment because of the sheer amount of oil carried. As discussed above, a VLCC tanker can carry of crude oil. <unk> <unk> <unk>
Incident "Exxon Valdez" In this spill, the ship ran aground and dumped of oil into the ocean in March 1989. ️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️ ️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️ The International Association of Independent Tanker Owners has observed that "accidental oil spills this decade have been at record low levels<unk> one third of the previous decade and one tenth of the 1970s<unk> at a time when oil transported has more than doubled since the mid-1980s".