The fine stems from an incident that sent 93 gallons of thick, syrupy fuel oil into Puget Sound while a cargo ship owned by OSM Ship Management was being fueled from an adjacent barge, according to Ecology. The oil-coated parts of the Elliott Bay Marina took six days to clean up.
Ecology investigators determined the ship's crew failed to properly monitor the fueling, made faulty repairs to a fuel-tank valve, and didn't promptly report the spill.