when you're car breaks down, they have tow-trucks, when you're semi is disabled, there are even bigger tow-trucks...when a supertanker is beached or its engines are failed in the seas, why isnt there a humongeous supertanker recovery vehicle that can respond to assist?
2006-07-07 18:25:35 · 9 answers · asked by walrus 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
It's probably not a question of engineering but one of economics instead. Sending out a humongous supertanker recovery vehicle would be humongous expensive. Makes more sense just to send out a repair crew and parts if needed.
2006-07-07 18:32:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are towboats that tow supertankers. They work in groups depending on the size of the tanker.
I remember something about a towboat being captured by the Iranians in the mid 1990's. It was towing a Greek Supertanker that was hit by the Iranians.
2006-07-07 18:35:04 · answer #2 · answered by worldisstillthesame 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is what tugboats are for. They can gear down thier engines to an immensely powerful, but slow ratio, allowing them to (slowly) tow just about anything. If more are needed for the job, they can easily join in. See how that's a better idea than one massive boat?
2006-07-07 18:37:20 · answer #3 · answered by Argon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They could always build a bigger boat to theoretically pick up a disabled boat. That's basically what a dry dock is. However, it would be prohibitively expensive to have a lot of really large boats waiting around for accidents. Also, they would probably have to be very, very slow, just because they're really big.
2006-07-07 18:29:31 · answer #4 · answered by foofoo19472 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Economics. Such a vehicle would cost an enormous amount, and only be used occasionally. So there is no one who would pay for it.
2006-07-07 18:29:10 · answer #5 · answered by Riothamus Of Research ;<) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-01 10:26:10 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they do. they are called tug boats. if a ship runs aground many times tug boats can wait for high tide a pull them out. tug boats frequently help boats/ ships at sea if they have engine trouble.
2006-07-10 05:28:07 · answer #7 · answered by daniel_97202 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
possibly because it wouldn't be cost-effective. I don't know too much about engineering, but it might just not be worth it.
2006-07-07 18:29:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we just don't want to.
2006-07-07 19:11:56 · answer #9 · answered by becy_10 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋