
Caribbean Princess Photo: Yankeesman312
The Justice Department has announced that Princess Cruise Lines will pay a record $40 million fine for “deliberate pollution of the seas and intentional acts to cover it up” in what it called “the largest-ever criminal penalty involving deliberate vessel pollution.”
Princess will plead guilty to charges related to the pollution discharged from five ships dating back, in at least one case, to 2005. On one cruise ship, the Caribbean Princess, oily waste was discharged using unauthorized values and various “magic pipes” for almost a decade.