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Change In Personnel Licensing

Regulations For Commercial Ships

Sought By U.S. Coast Guard

The Coast Guard is attempting to simplify and improve the licensing regulations for all commercial vessel personnel. The proposed amendments in CGD81-059 offer a license structure with career patterns for persons serving on all waters and on all kinds of ves- sels, from small passenger vessels to large oceangoing vessels. The proposed regulations also incorporate the requirements of the Inter- national Convention on Standards of Train- ing, Certification and Watchkeeping for Sea- farers, 1978 (STCW).

Major changes/key points: The notice pro- poses a simplified two license structure (Mas- ter/Mate and Chief Engineer/Assistant Engi- neer) on inland waters for service on any tonnage vessel and also for service on vessels up to 1,600 gross tons on near coastal waters (up to 200 miles offshore).

Trade restricted licenses would be elimi- nated—except for the restricted licenses es- tablished in law: uninspected towing and fish- ing vessels, pilot, motorboat operator, and non-navigating river mate.

Ocean operator and operator licenses will become masters and mates with route and tonnage limitations extended to 200 gross tons and near coastal waters.

License operators of uninspected towing vessels will be able to credit service toward obtaining master or mate licenses.

Special "industrial" licenses are established for officers who work on mobile offshore units.

Changes to requirements for a motorboat operator license will make it easier to obtain initially (on inland waters) and easier to use as a stepping stone to more advanced licenses.

The written exam subjects for the licenses have been standardized and would be listed in the new regulations. Consideration is being given to removing or limiting exam items on celestial navigation. Comments are specifi- cally invited on this topic.

Exams for licenses would be required only at entry and command level.

When any license is renewed, the license holder would be required to complete an open book exercise (all of which could be done through the mail).

For persons who may have difficulty with written exams, the new rules would provide for oral exams administered under special circumstances.

Present license holders will be able to take advantage of the new structure when they re- new their license or if they present informa- tion to the Coast Guard that justifies obtain- ing the new license earlier. (Note: If an officer is otherwise qualified to upgrade his license to a command level, he will have to take a par- tial exam on "command" topics).

The proposed regulations would allow sub- stitution of simulator time or special training for underway service.

The proposed regulations would eliminate the special consideration given to former members of the armed forces regarding re- cency of experience.

The Coast Guard Regional Exam Centers will have more latitude in evaluating certain licensing matters.

Flow charts have been added to the regula- tions to illustrate the pattern of career ad- vancement possible under the proposed rules.

Public comment period closes on December 6, 1983.

The complete proposed rule making appears in the Federal Register/Vol. 48, No. 153/Mon- day August 8, 1983.

If you have questions concerning the pro- posed regulations, contact LCDR George

Naccara (202) 426-2240.

ITC Tows Choctaw I

From Angola To Texas

I.T.C. Holland's tug Simoon delivers the Santa Fe Choctaw I at Sabine Pass, Texas.

After a 7,000-mile journey, the I.T.C. Hol- land tug Simoon (15,000 ihp, 110 tons bollard pull) delivered her tow of the Santa Fe Drill- ing Company semisubmersible rig Choctaw I at Sabine Pass, Texas. The voyage originated in Lobito, Angola, where the rig completed a drilling assignment.

The tug Simoon is one of seven sister tugs belonging to the I.T.C. "S-Wind Class" fleet, all possessing identical characteristics. (I.T.C.) International Transport Contractors

Holland B.V., is located in Haarlem, Holland, the Netherlands. Their subsidiary office in the

U.S. is located in Houston, Texas.

The Choctaw I is owned and operated by

Santa Fe Drilling Company, of Orange, Calif.

The unit was converted from a derrick/pipe- laying vessel to a drilling unit in 1981 by

Avondale Shipbuilding in New Orleans, La.

The rig will be available for an assignment in the Gulf of Mexico or overseas.

For more information on I.T.C. heavy lift and long distance towing services,

Write 57 on Reader Service Card

Ray Brown, director of Marine and Documentation Services,

Houston, Tex., discusses the arrival of the Santa Fe Choctaw

I with Ed Punch of International Transport Contractors.

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