Cruise Line Agrees to Fine in Pollution Case
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The world’s fourth-largest cruise line agreed in Miami to pay a $1.5-million penalty for dumping oily waste into the ocean and keeping false logs to cover it up.
Norwegian Cruise Line Ltd. pleaded guilty to keeping a false log book in April 2000 and admitted the company lied to the Coast Guard about illegal discharges from its Norway liner.
The prosecution is part of a federal crackdown on ocean pollution by cruise ships.
Norwegian admitted polluting by flushing an oil sensor with fresh water to make contaminated discharges look clean and dumping untreated waste water overboard.
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