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Engineering at Coast Guard headquar- ters. Prior to his current assignment,

Capt. Schrinner has served in various capacities at several units within the

Coast Guard's Marine Safety and

Environmental Protection program, and was twice assigned to the IMO. first as

IMO Regional Consultant on Marine

Pollution and Port Security, and later as

Senior Project Officer at IMO headquar- ters in London.

Though the transformation of the

Coast Guard since September 11 is pro- found, the service has always prided itself on its flexibility. The shrinking of government in the early to mid 1990s forced the Coast Guard to take more a partnering relationship stance with industry, a relationship which undoubt- edly paid big dividends in the arduous task to create and implement the new security regulations. "The old approach was to develop reg- ulations not with the full input of the industry, and (in the mid-1990s) it was decided that we should change," said

Capt. Schrinner. "At the time, the hot topics were commercial fishing vessel safety, uninspected vessels and cruise ships."

From this grew partnership initiatives with the likes of the American

Waterways Operators for tugboat and towboat safety, with the Passenger

Vessel Association for small passenger vessels and with the International

Council of Cruise Lines for cruise ships calling in the U.S.

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