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Oh for the old days of just pumping overboard.

One time we inadvertently pumped overboard while at anchor in Cannes France.
Needless to say the French weren't exactly thrilled with us, we left a few hours later, Got out to deep water, did our thing, and pulled into Nice France.

I know this is off the doughtnut topic, but in the Med we had not dumped garbage for almsot 2 weeks. One afternoon we were told to dump trash. The ship stopped and we dumped trash. It was floating all over behind the ship. The chief watching us called the bridge and they took off.

I found out later that day we were right at the limit to dump trash and were in the Gulf of Sidra, off Libya.