A pump was connected with the cylinder cooling apparatus, designed to free the cockpit of bilge water, but the pump would not work.
But they dragged me along and presently I found myself chained in the midst of a line of black men and women, many feet resting in the bilge water.
Harriet Penny had fainted and lay with the back of her head awash in the shallow bilge water.
The place was low, not more than seven feet in height, and the slaves lay ironed in the bilge water on the bottom of the vessel.
Is there any known method whereby oil can be separated from bilge water?
Separators for separating oil from bilge water, etc.
Any bilge water discharged could not have contained fuel oil, but at worst only a negligible amount of lubricating oil.
The knowledge that such a systematic surveillance was being carried out might well deter some masters from discharging oily ballast water or oily bilge water.
