Chief engineer convicted in pollution case
Mark Humphries, chief engineer of an American-flagged car-carrier ship operated by Pacific Gulf Marine, was convicted in U.S. District Court in Baltimore Tuesday on one count of conspiracy and two counts of making false statements in a pollution case.
The Justice Department said the Tanabata had a removable bypass pipe or “magic pipe” that was used to discharge oily waste without the use of an oily-water separator.
Discharges were falsely recorded as having been processed through the separator in the ship’s oil record book.
Humphries was found guilty in U.S. District Court in Baltimore of conspiring to violate four different laws including making illegal discharges of oil-contaminated bilge waste.
Chief engineer convicted in pollution case
