{"id":20568,"date":"2016-02-20T13:36:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T21:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=20568"},"modified":"2016-02-20T13:36:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T21:36:55","slug":"filipino-captain-tanker-admits-dumping-bilge-waste-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=20568","title":{"rendered":"Filipino Captain of Tanker Admits Dumping Bilge Waste Into the Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0SOUTH CAROLINA<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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A Filipino citizen and the captain of the tanker ship named T\/V Green Sky plead guilty last week to one felony count in federal court to obstructing a U.S. Coast Guard pollution investigation, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"u.s., 52, who was the highest ranking officer aboard the ship, plead guilty to one count of Obstruction of an Agency Proceeding. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Officials said the charge stems from a Coast Guard investigation in late August 2015 into circumventing pollution prevention equipment, including the use of a \u201cmagic device,\u201d on the Green Sky. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In court papers, the defendant stated that members of the ship\u2019s engine room, including a senior officer, admitted to illegally discharging overboard. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

These admissions occurred prior to the August 2015 Coast Guard inspection at the Port of North Charleston, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0During the investigation, \u00a0officials maintain Anciano made several false and misleading statements to the Coast Guard to cover up the illegal conduct.<\/span><\/p>\n

The T\/V Green Sky is a 30,263 gross ton, ocean-going vessel that operates as a petroleum and chemical tanker. \u00a0The vessel is approximately 600 feet in length and is registered in Liberia, officials said. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The vessel is owned by an entity incorporated in the Marshall Islands. <\/span><\/p>\n

Over the course of several days, the normal operation of the Green Sky generates thousands of gallons of bilge wastes that are contaminated with petroleum products and oil residues. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

These bilge wastes must be removed for the vessel to operate safely.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both the United States and Liberia are parties to the marine pollution treaty, which regulates the overboard discharge of bilge waste. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was prohibited to discharge bilge wastes from the T\/V Green Sky without first running that effluent through the ship\u2019s oily water separator, according to officials.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the pollution treaty, officials said all overboard discharges from the vessel\u2019s bilges had to be recorded in the T\/V Green Sky\u2019s oil record book. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A bypass of the oily water separator, which is not recorded in the oil record book, jeopardizes the accuracy and integrity of that document. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a separate federal crime for oceangoing vessels to enter a U.S. port with a false oil record nook, according to authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anciano\u2019s sentencing has not been scheduled.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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