Cruise crime.

• Position: STATELINE - Celebrity Cruises fined for polluting Strait of Juan de Fuca - Brief article

Washington state is fining the Celebrity Cruises company $100,000 for dumping more than half a million gallons of dirty water and sewage into the Strait of Juan de Fuca in the fall of 2005. The company blamed the spill on confusion about whether the ship was in state-governed waters. The state fine is the first against a cruise ship since 2004, when the state and several major cruise lines signed an agreement that barred cruise ships from dumping untreated wastewater into state...