The First Time As A Tragedy...

The BBC informs me there's been a tanker accident in Alaska, while Wikinews informs me one also happened on Tuesday in the Baltic Sea.

Funnily enough, the second episode of Futurama on Tuesday was this.

Fry: What's happening?
[Zoidberg turns on another screen that displays the extent of the damage to the tanker. There is a huge gash most of the way along the hull. A gauge at one side of the screen drops as the dark matter levels go down.]
Zoidberg: All 6,000 hulls have been breached!
[Fry falls to his knees.]
Fry: Oh, the fools! If only they'd built it with 6,001 hulls! When will they learn?

According to the BBC, the double hull was...

a design brought in during the 1990s to protect cargoes.

Yes, it would truly be a tragedy if the cargo was damaged (how exactly do you damage oil?). Of course, the environment doesn't need protecting from the oil industry...