[QUOTE=catherder;126702]The NOAA Corps is not required to be licensed, and most of them avoid licensing even while gathering plenty of sea time, because guess what- liability then falls on the Chief Engineer (who is required to be licensed).
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That has to rate up near the top of the pile of horsecrap theories about who is “liable” for what … do you guys spend so much time at the dock you have time to think up stuff like that?