If a 299 grt vessel departs Texas and sails to brazil never going farther than 200nm from shore who must have an oceans endorsement? Thanks for the help everyone.
it all depends what lic you hold eg: is you hold a 200/500 or 1600 ton master or mate N/C those lic say on them domestic N/C which mean the lic is valid for a domestic US voyage within 200 mile of a US coast. i think it might include canada & mexico . This is what i have been told by a CG inspector.
[QUOTE=tony tony tone;82122]it all depends what lic you hold eg: is you hold a 200/500 or 1600 ton master or mate N/C those lic say on them domestic N/C which mean the lic is valid for a domestic US voyage within 200 mile of a US coast. i think it might include canada & mexico . This is what i have been told by a CG inspector.[/QUOTE]
It also depends on whether the countries whose waters you will transit recognize near coastal documents.
Is there such a known, published, available list of such countries? That either they DO or DO NOT accept near coastal licenses being valid in their waters.
It is just like the guy who gets caught driving a car who had a ‘daylight’ only restriction who gets stopped driving at noon in a different state. An astute cop may figure it out that the guy had to have driven at night to have gotten that far. But the average cop wouldn’t figure it out.
The same applies here. Your vessel may make it all the way to your fueling stop, and then to Brazil. All while having no other issues. But if something happens, or you get boarded by a local coast guard (whatever they are called) and they don’t like your documents you are screwed.
Most other countries that have licenses don’t have our ‘near coastal’ equivalent. They have either an inland or an ocean license.
I’d certainly say that such a small vessel will not likely get too much scrutiny by a port state over the licenses the crew holds. As far as I know Brazil accepts OSV licenses even though STCW has no such animal.