Sixty passengers were injured when the cruise ship Ecstasy changed course to avoid a buoy off the coast of Mexico on a Caribbean cruise on 23 April. Operator Carnival Cruise Lines said the passengers, who had minor injuries, were treated in the ship's infirmary. The ship later returned to its US homeport of Galveston.rnA US court has cleared a Greek chief engineer accused of breaching anti-pollution laws - a rare win for a seafarer in such a case. Ioannis Mylonakis was accused of ordering the crew of tanker Georgios M to use a magic pipe to discharge sludge and oily waste into the sea near Houston, USA.
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