Helpful Links for Captains
Even after you have your license, you may still have questions! In the links below you will find many of the answers. You have come to the right place for all your info, from charts and publications to forms and filing information. If you have more questions, please call us at 920-733-5500!
Cold Water Servival Presesntation
Cold water Immersion: Tips to save your life
NMC
National Maritime Center - United States Coast Guard
Examination Help These will help yo with any Regional Exam Center exams
Link to NMC questions for their exams http://www.uscg.mil/nmc/training/exams/default.asp
American Practical Navigator (Bowditch)http://msi.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/APN/pub9.zip
http://msi.nga.mil/NGAPortal/MSI.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=msi_portal_page_62&pubCode=0002
Light List, LNM, Rules, GPS USCG Navigation Center http://navcen.uscg.gov/
Coast Pilot
Chart One(NOAA) http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/chartno1.htm
Charts, Weather, Coastal Pilot
National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Drug testing protocol required for captains license & Marine Employers
Captains license applicants: http://homeport.uscg.mil/, then click on Investigation, then Drug and Alcohol Program
Marine Employers: Marine Employers Drug Testing Guidelines (Downloadable/Printable PDF)
Free charts from NOAA
http://www.noaa.gov/charts.html
Homeport USCG
Portal to many USCG related issues, including merchant mariner license procedures. Click on Merchant Mariner, then Merchant Mariner Application Status to get status of any license application http://homeport.uscg.mil
Merchant Mariner Document (MMD)
All mariners employed aboard U.S. merchant vessels greater than 100 Gross Register Tons (Domestic Tonnage), except operators of uninspected passenger vessels, are required to have a valid U.S. MMD http://www.uscg.mil/stcw/ldcr-mmdinfo.htm
Merchant Mariners Licensing and Documentation
Contains all the needed forms, policies, checklists, etc. for anyone wanting a USCG license http://www.uscg.mil/stcw/index.htm
Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW)
U.S. exempts mariners from STCW requirements who serve on small passenger vessels inspected under subchapters T and K and other vessels of less than 200 Gross tons sailing on near coastal, domestic voyages. A near coastal, domestic voyage is one that begins and ends in a U.S. port, does not touch at a foreign port or enter foreign waters, and is not more than 200 miles from shore.
http://www.uscg.mil/stcw/stcw-history.htm
Transportation Worker Identification Credentials
All licensed mariners must obtain a TWIC card at least once
The universal enrollment center can be found at https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/twic
This page explains the process and who can not get a TWIC https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/twic
This is the USCG TWIC page http://www.uscg.mil/nmc/twic/