An Athens- based vessel driver has actually been fined $2.25 million in the United States after begging guilty to ecological criminal activities associating with the discharge of oil and also trash from among their vessels running off the shore ofTexas The Master of the vessel has actually additionally been founded guilty and also was punished to 6 months behind bars.

According to a Justice Department launch, Sea World Management & &Trading Inc and also Captain Edmon Fajardo begged guilty onMonday to 2 felony offenses of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships for falling short to keep an exact Oil Record Book and also Garbage Record Book onboard the MT Sea Faith.

Under the regards to the appeal contract, the business will certainly pay an overall penalty of $2.25 million and also offer a 3-year regard to probation throughout which all vessels run by the business and also getting in touch with united state ports will certainly be needed to apply a durable Environmental Compliance Plan.

Captain Fajardo was punished to 6 months imprisonment to be adhered to by 2 years monitored launch and also a $2,000 penalty.

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In court, both sea World Management and also Trading and also Fajardo confessed that oil freight deposits and also equipment room bilge water were unlawfully disposed from the Sea Faith straight right into the sea while the vessel was transiting to Corpus Christi, TX, without using needed contamination avoidance devices. They better confessed that these discharges were not tape-recorded in the vessel’s Oil Record Book as needed by regulation.

Specifically, on 5 various celebrations in between March 10, 2017, and also March 18, 2017, Fajardo gotten team participants to unlawfully release oily waste from different areas of the vessel’s cargo/deck areas. These oily waste discharges bypassed using the vessel’s needed oil discharge surveillance devices and also were done while the vessel remained in the Caribbean Sea and also the Gulf of Mexico.

In enhancement, Sea World Management & & Trading and also Fajardo additionally confessed that on March 10, 2017, and also March 15, 2017, Fajardo gotten team participants to toss plastics, vacant steel drums, oily dustcloths, batteries, and also vacant paint canisters straight crazy right into the sea. None of these trash discharges were tape-recorded as needed in the vessel’s Garbage Record Book.

The situations were explored by the united state Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi, UNITED STATE Coast Guard Investigative Service, and also Environmental Protection Agency-Criminal Investigation Division