Acts For Cruise Ship Dumping

EEZ extending 200 miles 320 km offshore.

Acts for cruise ship dumping. If dumping untreated sewage the ship must be located at least 12 miles offshore moving not less than four knots and using an approved discharge rate. Princess Cruise Lines Ltd. According to environmental regulatory lead at Royal Caribbean International Nick Rose the idea that cruise lines go round dumping stuff in the ocean is just wrong.

The agreement came after Princess was fined 40 million when one of her engineers exposed the ships illegal acts of dumping oil waste into the water. -6 annexes first 2. Such discharge has to be noted into a log book which is a legal document and verified by various authorities during inspections.

Prohibiting the discharge of sewage graywater and bilge water within twelve miles of shore. You are right eventually it is dumped into the ocean but within international IMO national guidelines. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act solid waste hazardous waste Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act transport of waste for the purposes of dumping Shore Protection Act waste handling practices for vessels Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships oil noxious substances garbage plastic 15.

In 2004 in the wake of the Crystal Cruises dump lawmakers in California the countrys second largest cruise economy after Florida passed laws banning cruise ships from dumping sewage within 3 miles of shore or incinerating waste within 20 miles of shore extending the scope of federal rules already in place. Cruise ships the size of small cities ply the waters off our coasts producing and then dumping large amounts of sewage and other wastes. The bilge water routinely dumped by the cruise ships was sufficiently toxic that the US.

In September 2018 the Holland America Westerdam cruise ship dumped 26000 gallons of grey water into Glacier Bay National Park and failed to notify the Coast Guard - a felony offense committed within the National Park. Title I of the Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act MPRSA applies to cruise ships and other vessels and makes it illegal to transport garbage from the United States for the purpose of dumping it into ocean waters without a permit or to dump any material transported from a location outside the United States into US. In 2017 the same subsidiary Princess Cruises pleaded guilty to illegally dumping oil from the Caribbean Princess cruise ship and intentionally trying to cover it up.

Princess has agreed to plead guilty to seven felony charges stemming from its deliberate pollution of the seas and intentional acts to cover it up. In addition to the simple acts of eating drinking doing laundry and showering for a week aboard a cruise ship and the massive amounts of wastewater sewage food waste and garbage that produces. It is perfectly legal for cruise ships to dump treated sewage in the ocean as long as they are three miles offshore.