Carmelo Oria, the chief engineer on Cyprus-flagged chemical tanker Nautilus, was sentenced by a US court in May to one month in prison plus two years supervised release for maintaining inaccurate records that concealed a discharge of oil-contaminated water. The Spanish citizen was also fined $3,000. Oria pleaded guilty on 9 March to violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships based on his role in discharging oil-contaminated bilge water from the 43,538dwt Nautilus directly into the ocean and then failing to record the discharge in the ship's records.
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