Apply for a license of 500 or 1,600 tons upon near coastal waters. You’ll need time on vessels on near coastal waters though so for you go to work on tugs under 200 GRT with just your towing license until you get the time. Most tugs are under that tonnage cutoff so you should be fine.
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there are two separate sections of the MMC, the STCW section and the Domestic section.
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here is a section of the domestic second of my MMC to illustrate how the different licenses are represented.
