Word: maru
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that we spotted 'em," the voice continues enthusiastically. "Our fighters dive-bombed all day, and next morning when they finished mopping up, more than 60 ships were on the bottom." Only after a second turn around the exposed mast of the aircraft transport freighter Fujikawa Maru does the plane begin its descent...
...enjoyed miraculously long immunity from the dreaded plague that used to sweep Europe. It was not until June 27, 1899, that the S.S. Nippon Maru reached San Francisco, carrying, among other things, eleven Japanese stowaways. Two were found drowned, and infected by the plague. Early in 1900 a Chinese immigrant, found dead, was also shown to have had plague. The resulting political furor was reminiscent of the Middle Ages, with the Governor of California insisting that there was no problem and federal authorities demanding stern measures for quarantine, isolation, disinfection and rat extermination. It took almost ten years of squabbling...
...spill occurred last week when the 237,698-ton supertanker Showa Maru ran aground at the eastern entrance to the Malacca Strait between Singapore and Malaysia on the north and Indonesia on the south. The impact tore open the ship's bottom, and an estimated 20,000 bbl. of oil leaked into the water. The five-square-mile slick that formed first threatened to smear the sparkling white beaches of Singapore's Sentosa Island, then began drifting westward toward more open water...
...tankers get bigger and bigger, the number of ports they can enter gets smaller and smaller. There are only about 20 commercial harbors in the world deep enough to serve the Nisseki Maru, a new Japanese behemoth that stretches 1,139 ft. long, carries almost 3,000,000 bbl. of crude oil and draws 89 ft. of water. Such monster tankers -each representing a potentially catastrophic oil spill-pump their cargoes into oil depots at the deep ports. Then smaller vessels take the oil to final destinations along the coast...