Their size makes them very hard to turn too, so you can see them a while off, but that doesn’t help if it takes Kms to stop.

It also only helps if there is someone actually looking out of the window…

Oil tanker was likely carrying aviation fuel for the US military (as per the BBC).

Let the conspiracy theories begin! (Does jet fuel melt ships!?!)

This happened not far off the coast. Looks like the oil tanker was at anchor waiting, while the cargo ship ploughed into it.

Oil tankers are not exactly the most nimble of ships, even if it tried to get out of the way.