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I find it strange that ships mix water runoff, antifreeze, hydraulic oil, engine oil seepage etc etc into a huge big mixed bilge tank and then try to separate i

• dsfyu404ed 7y ago
  It's more like the bilge is a central place where any fluid that leaks out of whatever system normally handles it winds up. On small vessels you just have a straight bilge pump that dumps out the side. At cruise ship scale you can afford to stick an oil/water separator filter on it.
  • jacobush 7y ago
    Yes I can understand how it could end up like that, it’s just that I think there must be a better way by now.