Three engineers who formerly worked I for Norwegian Cruise Line Ltd. were indicted on Dec. 18, 2003, by a Miami grand jury for keeping false oil record books and failure to keep proper oil record books on the 76,049-gross-ton cruise ship SS Norway. The government learned about the alleged pollution violations through a whisdeblower. In December 2003, it was announced that the whistleblower was awarded $250,000 for the tip. The three indicted men―two former chief engineers and a former first engineer ―are accused of causing oily bilge waste to be directly discharged into the ocean, according to the indictment, filed in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida. The indictment charges the engineers with using ejector pumps to discharge the bilge waste that had not been processed by the oil-water separator (OWS) and with flushing fresh water into the OWS to trick the device while discharging the oil-contaminated bilge waste.
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