HARVEST SPIRIT

Each loading arm and each transfer pipe must not leak under static liquid pressure at least 11/2 times the maximum allowable working pressure; and tested annually or as part of the biennial and mid-period inspections. Vessle does not test bunker lines under liquid pressure. Before bunkering in U.S. waters, vessle will need to provide proof of liquid pressure test of bunker lines. 33CFR156.170(c)(4) & 33CFR156.170(f)(3)

Each space were crew may be quartered or normally employed must have atleast 02 means of escape. Steering gear room emergency door that opened from the right side was blocked by water mist pipe union near deck. Emergency escape door must open and close withough obstruction. 46CFR92.10-5

A vessel owner or operator required to have a response plan shall conduct necessary exercises to ensure that the plan will function in an emergency. Vessel could not provide proof of response exercises including full-scale, quallified individual notifications, oil spill removal organization equiptment deployment, emergency procedures, or shore based spill management team tabletop exercise. Vessle needs to provide proof of OSRO response in reasonable time frame. 33CFR155.1060(a)

In addition to the requirements contained elsewhere in the present regulations, ships shall be designed, constructed and maintained in compliance with the structural, mechanical and electrical requirements of a classification society which is recognized by the Administration in accordance with provisions of regulation XI-1/1, or with applicable national standards of the Administration which provide an equivalent level of safety. Vessel has an approximate 14" by 5.5" hole in the hull, port side, approximately 10 feet above the waterline, near the anchor.

To discharge ballast water into the waters of the United States, the master, owner, operator, agent, or person in charge of a vessel subject to §151.1510 of this subpart must either ensure that the ballast water meets the ballast water discharge standard as defined in §151.1511(a), use an AMS as provided for under §151.1510(a)(1) or ballast exclusively with water from a U.S. public water system, according to the schedule in paragraph (b) of this section. Vessel found to have discharged water from Windsor, Canada (non-U.S. public water) into U.S. waters without a treatment system, extension letter or Alternate Management System (AMS). Vessel shall not discharge ballast water into U.S. waters till complaint with 33 CFR Part 151 Subpart C. Cite: 33 CFR 151.1512 Code: 10c