The defendant (“Ionia”), a company incorporated in Liberia and headquartered in Greece, managed the vessel Kriton, a 600 ft oil tanker flying the flag of the Bahamas. Between January 2006 and April 2007 the Kriton delivered oil and petroleum products to ports in the United States. While making those deliveries, the engine room crew, under the direction and participation of the chief engineer and second engineer, routinely discharged oily waste water into the high seas through a “magic hose” designed to bypass the vessel’s Oily Water Separator, which would have cleaned the waste to prepare it for disposal as required by law. Moreover, the Kriton’s crew made false entries in the oil record book to conceal such discharges.