How Effective is the Coast Guard in Carrying Out Its Commercial Vessel Safety Responsibilities?: Report to the Congress

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General Accounting Office, 1979 - Marine accidents - 112 pages
 

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Page 62 - ... lime or lemon juice, and also sugar and vinegar, or other anti-scorbutics, to be served out to every seaman as follows: The master of every such vessel shall serve the lime or lemon juice, and sugar and vinegar, to the crew, within ten days after salt provisions mainly have been served out to the crew, and so long afterward as such consumption of salt provisions continues ; the lime or lemon juice and sugar daily at the rate of half an ounce each per day ; and the vinegar weekly at the rate of...
Page 78 - Convention Relating to Civil Liability in the Field of Maritime Carriage of Nuclear Material...
Page 81 - Dumping" does not include: (i) the disposal of wastes or other matter incidental to, or derived from the normal operations of vessels, aircraft, platforms or other man-made structures at sea...
Page 62 - Fifth. For continued willful disobedience to lawful command or continued willful neglect of duty at sea, by being, at the option of the master, placed in irons, on bread and water, with full rations every fifth day, until such disobedience shall cease, and upon arrival in port by forfeiture, for every twenty-four hours' continuance of such disobedience or neglect, of a sum of not more than twelve days' pay, or by imprisonment for not more than three months, at the discretion of the court.
Page 62 - ... per centum of the reasonable wholesale value of the same at the port at which the voyage commenced. And if any such vessel is not provided, before sailing, as herein...
Page 83 - The aim of the civil liability convention is to ensure that adequate compensation is available to persons who suffer oil pollution damage resulting from maritime casualties involving oil-carrying ships. The convention places the liability for any such damage on the owner of the ship from which the polluting oil escaped or was discharged.
Page 103 - Any consideration of further delegation of authority to third parties must also consider the well established fact that it was the failure of third party inspection agencies or foreign governments that led to the present USGG inspection of foreign flag passenger ships in the 1966 and more recently foreign flag vessels in 1977.
Page 84 - Convention requires ships covered by it to maintain insurance or oner financial security in sums equivalent to (he owner's total liability for one incident. The Convention applies to all seagoing vessels actually carrying oil in bulk as cargo, but only ships carrying more than 2,000 tons of oil are required to maintain insurance in respect of oil pollution damage. This does not apply to warships or other vessels owned or operated by a State and used for the time being for Govemment non-commercial...
Page 62 - ... shall serve the lime or lemon juice, and sugar and vinegar, to the crew, within ten days after salt provisions mainly have been served out to the crew, and so long afterward as such consumption of salt provisions continues; the lime or lemon juice and sugar daily at the rate of half an ounce each per day; and the vinegar weekly at the rate of half a pint per week for each member of the crew.
Page 82 - ... discharges of oil are prohibited within 50 nautical miles of the nearest land. Sludge and other oily wastes must be discharged into reception facilities to be provided at ports. All tankers will be required to be fitted with features which will make compliance feasible. All new tankers of 70,000 DWT or over will be required to have segregated ballast. All tankers must have slop tanks, oil discharge monitoring and control systems, and oily water separating equipment. In addition to the specific...

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