Quote Originally Posted by nobody's_hero View Post
So in order to clean up the junk vessels that are floating around in the ocean, you have to meet certain environmental regulations? Well, I guess that doesn't surprise me.
Oh god yes, if you brought that vessel ashore to a salvage yard, depending on how old it was, there could be millions in clean up costs before a single piece of scrap steel was recovered. Oils, plastics, hazmats, asbestos, all have to removed before scrapping.