No it wouldn't. The fuel, whatever amount is there is likely contaminated and full of water, so it is probably worthless. The salvage value of the steel would most likely not even cover the costs of sending an ocean going tug and crew out to get it and bring it back to a yard that could scrap it. There is also likely Asbestos used throughout the boat. That alone makes scrapping it problematic and require special handing. Then there is the danger of even climbing on board the pitching and rolling vessel in the first place...

Much better alternative is to sink it as far offshore as possible.

I don't think you understand just how dangerous and hard it would be just getting on board this vessel. It is probably pitching and rolling side to side in the swells 20 to 40 degrees. Just pulling up alongside it in s small boat would be plain scary. Next as the article states the ship was slated to be scrapped. Depending on how far along the owners of the vessel were in that process there probably is very little that's useful onboard, including fuel. Sure the fuel tank is 2K, but it has likely been pumped down to only about 50 to a 100 gallons and the quality of that remaining fuel is highly doubtful. Sloshing around in a rusting empty tank, likely full of condensation and/or sea water. So the fuel that is on board whatever the amount is worthless either for salvage or to get the vessel operational.

So in addition to the dangers of just trying to get on board the vessel in the first place, getting additional clean fuel on board would be horrific, and even if you managed to do it, where would you put the good fuel? You can't use the fuel tank because all that would do is contaminate the good fuel. Diesel engines are wonderfully reliable things but they do have two very strict needs with respect to fuel. It must be pristinely clean, and it can have no water in it.

So to recap it is extremely dangerous just to get aboard the vessel, and even if you did mange to claw your way on board, you still only have a stinking vessel that doesn't run, nor is likely to be able to get running. Look someone was getting ready to scrap this rust heap anyway, so there isn't much there to begin with.

Listen up all you arm-chair seamen that think this thing should be towed or salvaged. BY FAR the safest thing to do is to sink this thing as far off shore as possible. The environmental risks in water greater than 10,000 feet is virtually nil. Just like a the Titanic on the bottom of the Atlantic ocean it will attract microbes that will go to work on it and it will all but vanish from the sea floor in a few hundred years.

BS! Try calling your boss if that person happened to be a woman, a slut and see how long you'd keep your job.

Advertisers? On HBO? Yeah, that's a brilliant statement.

Rush gets the ratings because he is appealing to the right's who are dumb enough to listen to him. To which you are effectively illustrating this point.

Aside from the fact that his comments about Fluke were totally rude and obnoxious what gets me is that he is always spouting off EiB this and EiB that. (Excellence in Broadcasting) He has that dang logo plastered on everything the touches. What I want to know is how the heck does Rush, or any of you Rush defenders out there, think this is in any way shape or form Excellence in broadcasting?

The other thing is that his apology sounds so hollow and insincere which is bad enough, but it also was only posted on his website. To my knowledge Rush hasn't actually said the words "I'm sorry..." on the air. Does anyone beside me think it a bit strange that a national radio talk show host chooses to use a website for his apology instead of saying something on, oh I don't know, the um radio???

No, that would be classified a statement of fact.~

What a terrible shame. I always thought very highly of him and his work when he was on the air. R.I.P. Eric

Seriously? That is what you post after reading this article? <rolls eyes>

UPDATE: Okay, to be fair this picture that KOMO used is far worse than what she apparently looks like now. This is apparently just a really really bad picture of her. (And who among us hasn't taken a bad picture from time-to-time)

On the website TMZ.com, a camera crew caught up with her for a comment as she was walking out the Hollywood Police station. In that brief video clip, which would have probably been taken on Sunday night or the wee hours of Monday morning, she at least is very much recognizable as Sean Young. In the vid both the person behind the camera asking her questions about the arrest and Sean Young's comments to the camera are very calm and they are quite polite to one another. She seems just a tiny bit spacey (probably normal) but NOT under the influence or anything like that and she could have been tired or something.

While not looking particularly "hot" like her old self, she does at least look like Sean Young and doesn't sound the least bit crazy. It also sounds as if there was a bit more to the story than what was reported. A citizen's arrest? What the heck is that about? Something sounds fishy to me....

Ah, that little guy is soooo cute!