supertanker

"Your men can board a supertanker from the water while it's under way?"

"But it's like a supertanker that takes five miles to stop or turn around."

Government service delivery is like a supertanker we must turn.

After all, a supertanker can move down easily while it is going forward.

Its ability to change course has often been compared to that of a supertanker.

From the photograph, what problems are there now for building really large ships, such as supertankers?

It might take the supertanker two miles to answer the helm.

They found a way to mass together and hull even the big supertankers.

Banks are like supertankers: it takes a long time to turn them round.

And yet this man was a stranger who seemed to know a great deal about the operation of a supertanker.

Someone would have been bound to ask why a supertanker was having her oil tanks taken out.

To be sure, the volatile world oil situation makes the supertanker business risky.

For a moment he thought that a supertanker had exploded into flames.

The supertanker made the passage in a little more than an hour with the submarine right behind her.

The biggest supertankers hold half a million tons of crude.

At least they're laying off the supertankers out of Valdez now.

It had taken ten minutes for the supertanker to explode and disappear.

"The mines cause relatively little physical damage to the supertankers," he said.

It is not a practical solution for a large vessel such as a supertanker.

Then along came the supertanker, which had no need for the canal, and Egypt lost its leverage.

The sinking of a laden supertanker would make the present slick look small indeed.

About how much larger are the modern supertankers compared with the tankers of 20 years ago?

We'll be at periscope depth with a solution to the supertanker.

A flight of F-14 jets is on its way to intercept the supertanker and turn him around.

Because of their great size, supertankers often can not enter port fully loaded.