[QUOTE=Miek;50811]Well put. Looking at the tonnage requirements under 11.402 you can’t even lift the tonnage restriction using the large osv route 6000itc is only equivalent to 9000 tons. It sure would be nice to know the logic behind this hopefully someone can shed some light on this subject with this ruling the USCG has effectively locked the lower level licensed persons out of the upper level stuff. I now have an endorsement that is utterly useless.[/QUOTE]
My understanding was that if you serve on a vessel over 3000 ITC your tonnage restriction would be lifted? Are you baseing your statement only on the 11.402? My plan was/is to get on a vessel over 3000 ITC using the OSV card to get my restriction lifted.