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	Tanker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A tanker, also called a tank truck or tanker lorry, is a heavy road vehicle designed for the same purpose.
		A tanker is also a piece of firefighting equipment used to carry or shuttle large amounts of water to a fire scene where traditional fire plugs (hydrants) are not available.
		A tanker, in the massive-multiplayer lingo, is a character able to resist or shrug off heavy amounts of damage relatively unharmed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tanker (257 words)

	New Jersey Scuba Diver - Artifacts & Shipwrecks - Tanker
		Tankers are enormously strong vessels, built with a honeycomb construction, a modern crude carrier typically having fifteen cargo tanks protected by a double hull structure around the sides and bottom, in which sea water ballast can be carried for the empty voyage after the oil cargo has been delivered.
		Specialist tankers include vessels which are configured to carry as many as fifty different grades of chemicals and oils, each with their own separate pumping systems and capable of coping with cargoes that need to shipped hot, cold or under a blanket of nitrogen.
		Newer tankers are "double-hulled", with an air space between the hull and the storage tanks, to reduce the risk of a spill in the event the hull is breached.
	www.njscuba.net /artifacts/ship_tanker.html (1368 words)

	KC-767 Common Widebody Tanker & Transport
		The current tanker fleet averages over 40 years in age, and yet it is the backbone of US ability to project force.
		The cost of a 767 tanker is somewhere between $150 million and $225 million, depending on the number ordered and the nature of the modifications.
		The 767 tanker transport selected by Japan is a military derivative of the 767-200ER commercial aircraft.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/aircraft/kc-767.htm (1647 words)

	Nebraska FACE Report No. 00NE016
		The tanker was parked on a road parallel to the canal.
		The water tanker the victim was operating was used to spray the road surface with water to keep the dust down.
		Standard procedure for filling the tanker, at the incident location, is to pull the tanker up parallel to the canal and connect one end of the fill hose to the tanker.
	www.cdc.gov /Niosh/face/stateface/ne/00ne016.html (1196 words)

	Toward a Survivable Tanker Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Furthermore, our tanker crews can develop a "noncombatant mentality" that has them ignoring threat briefings, forgetting that they are a legitimate part of the overall combat effort, and it deprives tanker crews of opportunities to develop judgment that may help them accomplish their mission when the balloon goes up.
		Tankers would have to operate within range of enemy fighters to be of any use to our fighter and attack aircraft.
		Tanker squadrons should be randomly selected to perform no-notice ORIs in conjunction with full fighter squadron deployments to Europe or the Pacific area or, in the interest of saving resources, to a Red Flag exercise.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/aureview/1983/may-jun/cahoon.htm (1166 words)

	Apparatus
		Tankers are used to hold large volumes of water in the event that a fire hydrant is not close by.
		When the water in a tanker's tank has been off-loaded into the fold-a-tank, the tanker is then driven to a fire hydrant or body of water (e.g.
		While the tanker is retrieving more water from the distant source, a pumper draws the water out of the fold-a-tank.
	www.germanfiredept.org /Apparatus/Apparatus.htm (496 words)

	Expanding the Tanker Fleet - Part 2
		Equipping a tanker with a robust defensive package is a large cost overhead, which could fall into the USD 5-20M cost range, depending upon how elaborate the package needs to be.
		Tankers are the backbone of a modern air force, and by this measure the RAAF is at this time in a very weak position.
		Without a robustly sized tanker fleet, the RAAF would be unable to perform medium and high intensity air defence operations in the `cruise missile launch belt' north-east of the Pilbara and Timor Sea, and would be hard pressed to effectively escort the F-111 to the outer bounds of its combat radius.
	www.f-111.net /CarloKopp/aar-expand-2.html (5097 words)

	NIOSH Hazard ID 14--Fire Fighter Deaths from Tanker Truck Rollovers
		Tanker drivers may not be fully aware that tanker trucks are more difficult to control than passenger vehicles.
		The effect is influenced by the amount of water the tanker is hauling and whether the tanker is baffled.
		The tanker was traveling west when the Chief lost control of the tanker as he approached a slight curve in the road.
	www.cdc.gov /niosh/hid14.html (1066 words)

	Double-hulled tanker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A double-hulled tanker is a large tanker ship used for transporting liquids (usually petroleum).
		Double-hulled tankers were required after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
		The U.S. Congress passed The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 requiring double-hull tankers now, but allowing the transportation companies until 2015 to replace existing tankers.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Double-hulled_tanker (110 words)

	Tanker truck blast kills 16 in Baghdad: police - Dec. 18, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He said the tanker had not been carrying petrol but a load of explosives, which were deliberately set off, but another senior police officer said there were other theories on the cause of the blast.
		Reporters at the scene said the tanker exploded in the middle of a wide crossroads, devastating the immediate surrounding area, incinerating cars and people in them.
		Four people were dead in one car, while a pickup truck, a minibus and the tanker truck were reduced to burnt-out metal wreckage.
	www.inq7.net /wnw/2003/dec/18/wnw_2-1.htm (362 words)

	Tanker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A tanker is usually a vehicle carrying large amounts of liquid fuel.
		Apart from pipeline transport, tankers are the only method of transporting large quantities of oil around the world.
		The largest tanker in the world is the Jahre Viking.
	www.wikiverse.org /tanker (292 words)

	CNN.com - Tanker crash closes part of East Coast highway - Mar 26, 2004
		A tanker caught fire, spilled 3,000 gallons of oil on I-95.
		The tanker carrying 9,000 gallons of heating oil collided with a car on an overpass, jackknifed and exploded, creating enough heat to buckle part of the southbound side of the Howard Avenue Overpass bridge, said state police spokesman Paul Vance.
		The driver of the tanker and drivers in surrounding cars managed to get out of their vehicles quickly and sustained minor injuries.
	www.cnn.com /2004/US/Northeast/03/26/tanker.crash/index.html (490 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Double-Hull Tanker Legislation: An Assessment of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The tanker industry is entering a period of significant vessel retirements corresponding to the tanker building boom of the mid- 1970s.
		Smaller single-hull tankers, particularly those for which unloading offshore is not economical, may be scrapped before the end of their economic life.
		Single-hull tankers of between 60,000 and 150,000 DWT (without double bottoms or double sides) will be excluded from trade to the United States when they reach 23 or 25 years of age, in accordance with the phaseout schedule of Section 4115.
	books.nap.edu /books/0309063701/html/142.html (3574 words)

	City of Heroes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Tanker is not totally invulnerable, but his skills allow the other Archetypes to play their parts, too.
		The Tanker is a devastating hand to hand combatant, and ranks second only to the Scrapper in sheer melee power.
		Tankers proudly stand in the front lines of battle in order to protect their comrades and, of course, the innocent.
	www.cityofheroes.com /features/archetypes.html (434 words)

	Overturned tanker on Crosstown chokes morning traffic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As a precaution, the expressway was closed in both directions while the tanker was pulled from the ditch and prepared for towing.
		Fire crews were standing by in case of an explosion, but the tanker was safely removed from the ditch and the scene was cleared by 8:30.
		The tanker driver suffered minor injuries in the initial crash, but no one else was hurt.
	www.wfts.com /stories/2005/03/050316crosstown.shtml (245 words)

	CNN.com - Questions over oil tanker sinking - Nov. 20, 2002
		The oil tanker Prestige, which was carrying more than 77,000 metric tonnes (20.5 million gallons) of oil, split in two and sank on Tuesday off the northwest coast of Spain, threatening a major ecological disaster.
		It was the second oil tanker disaster off Europe's Atlantic coast in three years; in December 1999 the tanker Erika split in two, polluting large sections of the French coastline.
		Intertanko, an independent tanker owners' association, said the Prestige had been given the all-clear by the American Bureau of Shipping, and that the tanker's Greek operator was a member of the association.
	europe.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/11/19/spain.oil.questions/index.html (890 words)

	Chinese Defence Today :: H-6 Aerial Refuelling Tanker Aircraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The effectiveness of this tanker fleet is limited by the number of combat aircraft with refuelling equipment, as well as the numner of PLA pilots capable of undertaking in-flight refuelling operations.
		Currently a total of 10 H-6 tanker (serial number 43x9x) are believed to serve with the PLAAF 9th Air Division based at Laiyan Airbase in Guangzhou Military Region, which is quite close to the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea.
		The H-6 tanker is generally identical to the original H-6 bomber, except that it has a solid nose instead of the galss-in nose of the H-6.
	www.sinodefence.com /airforce/aircraft/special/h6tanker.asp (495 words)

	Paris 2003: Tanker version of 767 ready for refit program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The first production Boeing 767-200 destined for military tanker duty is scheduled to fly from the Commercial Airplane Group’s Everett, Washington facility to Wichita, Kansas, on July 16, where the company plans to perform the conversion for the Italian air force in time for delivery in 2005.
		However, the company considered the 767 tanker deal in its layoff projections; therefore, the contract will not likely result in a net gain in employment in Washington state but will prevent further layoffs beyond the projected 35,000.
		During proximity testing, Boeing flew a C-17 behind the 767 tanker and remained on autopilot–the first time Boeing test pilots managed such a maneuver with such a heavy trailing aircraft.
	www.ainonline.com /Publications/paris/paris_03/pd2tankerspg73.html (984 words)

	GMA: How Big is an Oil Tanker? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To carry a large amount of oil, tankers are designed to be quite large.
		In comparison, the largest tanker in the world, the Jahre Viking, formally known as the Seawise Giant, is 1504 feet long and 226 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.
	octopus.gma.org /surfing/human/howbig.html (472 words)

	CNN.com - Crippled fuel oil tanker sinks - Nov. 20, 2002
		A crippled tanker carrying more than 19.6 million gallons of heavy fuel oil has sunk 130 miles off Spain's northwest coast, leaving Spanish authorities scrambling to protect the coastline in a region where fishing is the primary industry.
		The tanker had already leaked viscous oil into the rich fishing grounds off the coast, and regional authorities temporarily banned fishing in an area famous for its shellfish, octopus and crabs.
		The tanker's Greek captain was in custody after five hours of questioning Sunday by a judge in La Coruna.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/11/19/spain.oil (783 words)

	200 evacuated after derailment sends tanker cars into Allegheny River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Two of the tanker cars that ended up in the river were filled with anhydrous hydrogen fluoride, a caustic concentrated gas that turns into hydrofluoric acid when mixed with water.
		But removal of the damaged tanker, to be done sometime today, will be a delicate operation because of the danger posed by the potential release of the caustic hydrogen fluoride gas into the air once the tanker is removed from the water, he said.
		Though emergency officials said the tanker derailment did not pose a hazard as yet to the New Kensington side of the river, health officials canceled outpatient appointments yesterday and today for Citizens General Hospital and rescheduled the appointments for the Alle-Kiski Medical Center in the Natrona Heights section of Harrison, hospital spokeswoman Kelli Serencsa said.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05032/450926.stm (1205 words)

	Aerial Tanker Force Modernization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As important as the bombers themselves, however, is the large fleet of tanker aircraft used to refuel bombers in flight.
		Tankers also now figure prominently in conventional non-nuclear war plans, and they could prove indispensible, for instance, in projecting the Rapid Deployment Force (RDF) to distant theaters of operation.
		The need for substantial tanker capacity emerged especially clearly during the Arab-Israeli war in 1973, when U.S. airlift missions in support of Israel were nearly halted for the lack of mid-course refueling.
	www.cbo.gov /showdoc.cfm?index=5326&sequence=0 (552 words)

	UNITED STATES v. LOCKE
		The bulk of oil transported on water is found in tankers, vessels which consist of a group of tanks contained in a ship-shaped hull, propelled by an isolated machinery plant at the stern.
		The size of these vessels, the frequency of tanker operations, and the vast amount of oil transported by vessels with but one or two layers of metal between the cargo and the water present serious risks.
		Operating Procedures–[Watch Practices WAC—317—21—200.] Requires tankers to employ specific watch and lookout practices while navigating and when at anchor, and requires a bridge resource management system that is the ‘standard practice throughout the owner’s or operator’s fleet,’ and which organizes responsibilities and coordinates communication between members of the bridge.
	supct.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/98-1701.ZO.html (6931 words)

	Steve Quayle News Alerts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I wanted to pass along some details about the mising Fruehoff gasoline tanker truck missing from the Pennsauken, NJ trailer yard and some images of the vehicle itself.
		This is roughly equal to 90% of the capacity of a topped-off Boeing 757-300 commercial airliner (11,489 gallons of aviation fuel).
		When the aircraft hit the WTC towers on 9/11 they were probably holding the same amount of fuel as this tanker.
	www.stevequayle.com /News.alert/04_Terror/040422.NJ.fuel.tanker.html (161 words)

	Welder Dies in Explosion While Working Inside Tanker Trailer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The victim's employee, who was outside and on top of the tanker at the time of the incident, left the scene shortly after the incident occurred.
		The victim was not brought out of the tanker trailer until approximately 7 hours after the incident occurred due to the fire department's concern regarding another potential explosion.
		The tanker trailer was 42.5 feet long and 8 feet wide and had a maximum holding capacity of 9500 gallons.
	www.dhs.ca.gov /ohb/ohsep/FACE/93CA009.htm (1584 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Stricken oil tanker sinks
		A stricken tanker which has been leaking oil off the north-west coast of Spain has sunk after breaking apart, taking thousands of tons of fuel with it.
		The bow of the Prestige was the first to go under water, followed a few hours later by the rear of the vessel, which had been carrying at least 70,000 metric tons of heavy fuel oil.
		The worst in recent years was in 1992, when the Greek tanker Aegean Sea lost 80,000 tonnes of crude oil when it ran aground near La Coruna.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/2492755.stm (757 words)

	UNITED STATES v. LOCKE
		Petitioner International Association of Independent Tanker Owners (Intertanko), a trade association of tanker operators, brought this suit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against state and local officials responsible for enforcing the BAP regulations.
		First, the imposition of a series of training requirements on a tanker’s crew does not address matters unique to Washington waters, but imposes requirements that control the staffing, operation, and manning of a tanker outside of those waters.
		It is pre-empted by §3703(a) as a “personnel qualification” and by 33 U.S.C. (a)(7), which requires that any vessel operating in United States waters have at least one licensed deck officer on the navigation bridge who is capable of clearly understanding English.
	supct.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/98-1701.ZS.html (1306 words)

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