A pump was connected with the cylinder cooling apparatus, designed to free the cockpit of bilge water, but the pump would not work.
But they dragged me along and presently I found myself chained in the midst of a line of black men and women, many feet resting in the bilge water.
Harriet Penny had fainted and lay with the back of her head awash in the shallow bilge water.
The place was low, not more than seven feet in height, and the slaves lay ironed in the bilge water on the bottom of the vessel.
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Is there any known method whereby oil can be separated frombilgewater?
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Separators for separating oil frombilgewater, etc.
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Anybilgewaterdischarged could not have contained fuel oil, but at worst only a negligible amount of lubricating oil.
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The knowledge that such a systematic surveillance was being carried out might well deter some masters from discharging oily ballast water or oilybilgewater.
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My plea is please do not throw out the baby with thebilgewater; because there is a lot ofbilgewaterin this.
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The maritime environment is also being contaminated by practices indifferent to the law and environmental welfare, such as emptyingbilgewaterinto the open sea.
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As the ship rolls thebilgewatercomes from one side to the other and increases the danger.
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The two petitions are largely bogus, lacking in fact and merit, and they should be thrown out with thebilgewaterwith the contempt they deserve.
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The other is to have local barges in the harbors, which themselves have separators, and into which the ships can discharge theirbilgewatermixed with oil.
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Whether it be waste oil from washing an oil fuel-ballast tank or waste oil which has been accumulated from the lubricating system or oilybilgewateris not important.
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Bilgewateralso may contain solid wastes and pollutants containing high amounts of oxygen-demanding material, oil and other chemicals.
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It was believed to have arrived on the hulls of ships, or possibly the larval stages travelled inbilgewater.
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Men, floor plates,bilgewater, and other loose objects fell through the length of the submarine.
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This movement happens to be in close proximity with a well to collectbilgewater.
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A typical large cruise ship will generate an average of 8 metric tons of oilybilgewaterfor each 24 hours of operation.
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