The agreement also sheds additional light on communications between Deenadayalan and Radhakrishnan Karthik Nair, a Synergy technical superintendent who was indicted last month alongside two ship management companies.
According to the filing, Deenadayalan admitted that Nair directed him to send a “convincing” email to the vessel’s charterer regarding the Dali‘s fuel consumption to avoid drawing attention to the use of the flushing pump.
Deenadayalan was the Chief Engineer.
More that Federal prosecutors, I think the one who have reached a deferred prosecution agreement is the chief engineer and this may give him the chance to reduce final punishments, but hazard to the safe navigation of the vessels and endanger bridges, structures and shore facilities is the full lack of risk assessment of old design conception of this infrastructure, and inadequacy to today’s ship dimensions, speed, etc. from shore institutions, port authorities, coast guard watch, etc.
Technical superintendent and ship management companies are the most weak shackle in the chain not covered by failing to due diligence, where the crew is covered.
The 2 paragraphs below from the gCaptain article were the most puzzling to me. I’ve heard proper names of equipment butchered all kinds of ways depending on the type of vessel, country & even what body of water ships sailed on. I had to use A.I & research to ensure I knew what the NTSB was talking about with the term, “flushing” pump. When this incident happened none of the professional mariners on this forum were in the ballpark concerning the cause if the NTSB is pinning it on modified fuel pumps on the generators. From what I read those guys on the Dali had a really weird set up. I’m not sure I completely understand it still.
From the gCaptain article:
“At the center of the case is the flushing pump, which prosecutors say was improperly used to supply fuel to two diesel generators despite not being designed to automatically restart after a blackout. As a result, the generators allegedly lost fuel supply following the first outage, leading to a second blackout that left the vessel without propulsion or steering moments before impact.”
“Separately, shipbuilder HD Hyundai Heavy Industries has alleged that the vessel’s operators bypassed built-in redundancies after delivery by replacing automatic fuel supply pumps with the non-redundant flushing pump, a modification the company said violated classification rules and contributed directly to the second blackout.”
Pages 90-94 explain it pretty well.
Other observations:
Flushing pumps were mentioned a couple time before the NTSB preliminary report was released:
A sudden stoppage of the fuel supply would explain why both generators would shut down at the same time, as they share a common fuel line, and also prevent the standby generator from starting automatically. But since the ship was presumably using LSMGO, they might have been using the small flushing pump instead of the dedicated fuel oil booster pumps for the generators.
Also discussed after the report:
Just a question from a simple driver.
So emissions control complicated the system so much that the designed system could not be used for fear of prosecution from the eco idiots so the Dali used a work around that failed under stress.
Good job eco idiots 
No air pollution
Just 6 dead brown people so no big loss there
A few more brown people still stuck in Baltimore ( allegedly a worse place than Islamabad)
Oh and a flimsy non protected bridge in the river
Wow 
