American Credentials, Australian Vessel and Waters

Maritime Employment
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Man it’s been absolute ages since I last wrote anything on this forum. I got locked out when they re did the forum program and only just got back in now. But I digress…

Has anyone here ever worked on an Australian flagged Vessel in Australia under their American license?

Specific case: It’s a 65’ twin screwed sailing research boat recently purchased by two friends of mine. Neither has a master’s license so I flew down to help them out but need to ensure that I’m not breaking any laws.

Anyone done anything similar?

Cheers,
Cody

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is it flagged pleasure or under any state commercial regs?
Be aware OZ has state based local commercial tickets.
They also have state based license to drive a pleasure boat but they do have lists of other ticket holders that comply.

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So the vessel is registered “Domestic Commercial” and under local regs requires what they call a MASTER 5.

MASTER 5 is pretty similar to 100 Ton USCG Master.

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I’m going to make an educated guess and say that if the vessel requires a license then your American license won’t be sufficient.

There’s a chance you can get a CEC or that at that level license or for that application the state won’t care where the license is from.

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I checked the possibility to emigrate and work on Australian offshore vessels when the Oil crisis hit Norway like a ton of bricks. But the hassle of getting endorsement was to high. Australia is very restrictive on foreigners working in their waters.