STCW Convention

So they have not.

And why is this a problem? Because one of the co-leaders of that subcommittee of MRPAC said that it costs their family $16,000 for all of the courses required for them to keep up an, uh, an STCW engineering certificate.

Wow.

$16,000.

to get these certifications, which is pre-C training at the, maybe in Ghana is the regional maritime university.

They get the pre-C for six weeks, they get their STCWs, they get their COP certificates of competencies, they get their SID, seafarer identification, they get their ENG1, which is the medicals that the maritime coast God in the UK requires.

So getting all of this is a lot of money.

Okay, they get this and then now they get a contract from the vessel owner because they need to have that letter of employment before they will be able to board the plane.

Elsewhere, it might be British Canoeing or whatever the qualification might be in your country.

The next piece is the Coast Guard STCW.

So the STCW is executed in North America by the US Coast Guard, but it's actually a global qualification.

And you spend five days learning how to deal with anything that might come up on a ship.

So one day, for example, we were in firefighting gear learning how to put out fires on a ship.

We have to do all our safety courses every five years.

So our STCW courses, which if people don't know, we have to do firefighting.

We have to do personal survival.

We have to do a rescue boat course.

To answer your questions about this, is this production's fault? I don't think so, and here's why.

So commercial superyachts and charter agencies have or are supposed to have strict maritime security protocols, including STCW certifications and Maritime Labour Convention standards, and deckhands are supposed to hold clean background records to obtain the necessary visas.

Obviously, like, if you're gonna be going in a bunch of international waters and working in multiple different countries, you have to have a visa to be able to work in those areas.

If the charge in 2022, if the Irish charge in 2022 and then the warrant in 2025 didn't show up or alert any of those agencies, I don't know how a production company would be able to find it.

The Immigration and Nationality Act has a permanent statutory bar for crimes involving moral turpitude, and you cannot get a crew visa.

International port clearance under the Advanced Passenger Information System, APIS, that's the automated passenger crew manifest alerts to border enforcement upon docking in allied ports.

The Maritime Licensing and Fitness, the STCW convention and Maritime Labour Convention, and that's gonna result in a revocation of commercial fitness certifications and his inability to pass the underwriting vetting.

And then his sovereign travel documents, so his Irish, Section 18 of the Irish Passports Act, the statutory authority for the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs can and probably has formally canceled his passport.

which is also an important element of the level playing field and an important element as well.

The workforce and the skills and competencies of the crew and this at the level of STCW is also being addressed with the view not to leave any gap when it comes to ensuring that all molecules, all fuels get equal options when the framework is in place.

Yeah, and that goes back to Konstantinos' point about, take ammonia, for example, toxicity of ammonia and operational safety on board seems to be the biggest hurdle at the moment, aside from fuel availability.

Kai, we'll move on to you.

So not only does your boat have to be set up the correct way with everything, you also have to have the appropriate license for what you want to do.

So in order for a US vessel to go to Bermuda, you have to have what's called STCW, which gives you, which is what, safety training certification of watch standing.

And what that does is it says, okay, all the countries have come together in this convention and said, this is how we want safety to be done on the water.

Everybody agreed on it.

You have to haul out, you know, so often they're the ones who dictate all the safety things on your boat.

They give you the manning requirements and all of that stuff.

So back to if you want to run Libra, the license that you would have to have is called an A3 STCW master's license.

Oceans, which basically takes, and to get the oceans part, it's a 200 ton deal.