the u united states s clearly a world leader in enforcing marpol. james: you would think the no-brainerer is don't dumpml ininto the water. unfortununate, there are people out there that ststill illegally dudump oil overboard. it's my job to stop it. i've been with thehe coast guard 17 1/2 years now. we go out and do inspections every day. captain: hello, welcome aboard. james: good morning, captain. jim kline, united states coast guard. captain: captain. man: good morning, captain. james: what we would like to do from here, captain, is we'll do an examination down in the enginene spaces. captain: ok. james: we'll actually go down and do a visual inspection of the equipment and then w we'll have them do a a operational te. and that tells us whether or not they understand their equipment, they know how to use it, and if it''s opoperating g correctly. the inspectorsrs are kinind of e the work horse. we understand the equipment, we understand the process, we understand the laws. we're making sure that they're in complianance with marpolol. richard: lar

we're making sure that they're in compliance with marpol. richard: large commercial vessels have waste oil. it's part of how they work. james: you can't just take that and dump it over the side. tt has to be put into a holding tank that will later be sent shoreside to a facility. richard: any overboard discharge has to be through a pollution prevention machine called an oily war separator. james: once you get it up to speed, if you could just give me a minute to take a look arou before we put in... well, marpol says if you're gonna dump oil, it has to run through filtering equipment which won't allow more than 15 parts per million oi over the side of the ship. richard: oil becomes visible around 100 parts per million. if you can see oil in the water, if you can see an oil slick, you know that it's a violation of marpol. james: they were having a hard time getting that oily water separator going. it wasn't operating the way it should. man: here we go. ok, restart it. it's hitting clear water, it's coming down. james: other than finding that t