Fishing Boat Dumps Tank In Ocean, Then Coast Guards Find Out Why

Still, there was a problem. The operation wasn’t exactly approved. At least not officially. The team had filed for permits, but they got buried in paperwork. So they moved ahead quietly, with help from retired fishermen and old scrapyard connections. “Look,” said one scientist, “we didn’t do it to break the law. We did it to fix something that’s already broken.”