RaginCajun
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Regarding the sea time. What if all of my time was on a 16 ft skiff with a 23 HP motor or a similar sized boat with a 75 hp motor? Assume I had 360/720 days on these boats, what level of license would this allow me?
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FWIW, I am going to try out the Mariner's School and report on it here. It should be fun and enlightening.
Any medication that may impair you, wheather over the counter or prescribed is not allowed to be in your system while operating any vessel for hire.Question on the drug testing..... As long as I am prescribed medication by my doctor and provide proof I am okay, right? Or will they fail me for the drug test and not allow me to go forward until I am off of all narcotic medications?
I grew up on the water, owned vessels from 12' to 76' and work aboard vessels much larger.Well I do have a bad back that I will be getting a spinal fusion on in the next few months that should eliminate most of my symptoms and it should get me off of most of my meds but I can do anything anyone else can do, I can even do heavy lifting if I have to. What it comes down to is how much pain I want to put up with in order to do something, most of the time the pain comes hours after I "overdue it".
Right now I am on an extended release morphine and I have been for the past few months but since I have been on it for so long now it has no impairing effects on me at all.
I was a SWAT officer and I got injured on the job, I'm waiting for this surgery and my plan is after I get my medical retirement I'm going to finish up my DM and get my instructor cert, moving South and follow my dream, buy a larger vessel and run dive/ fishing charter. I always said I was going to do that after I retired I just didn't expect I was going to be retiring 10yrs early so as it stands right now I have about 1 year before I'm fully retired.
So unless there is some crazy super human physical test that I am required to perform I doubt I will have a problem with it at all. I should be able to perform any physical exam they can throw at me. Unless me being on a prescription for morphine is an automatic exclusion I will pass the drug test also...
Thanks for asking, I have finally started! :shocked2: So far it's going just fine and I hope to be finished soon. It's not that hard.How is the course coming? Any news?