register to State Department to abc islands

[scubaaaronh]

Everyone traveling to the Netherlands Antilles islands check this out,

U.S. Consulate Encourages American Citizens to Register Your Travel to the Netherlands Antilles

In a recent statement by the U.S. Consulate General in Curacao and the U.S. State Department, the Consulate strongly encouraged any American citizen living or traveling in Aruba or the Netherlands Antilles to register your trip on the State Department's travel registration web site at https://travelregistration.state.gov/.

Read the entire news item :
http://www.bonaireinsider.com/index...n_citizens_to_register_your_travel_to_the_ne/

(If the above URL link is inoperable, make sure that you have copied the entire address into your browser's address window. Some mail readers and software will wrap a long URL link across multiple lines, and thus break the link.)



http://www.bonaireinsider.com/index...n_citizens_to_register_your_travel_to_the_ne/

 

[WarmWaterDiver]

I registered our Nov. / Dec. 2006 NA 'diveabout' trip, and registered our upcoming Curacao trip. But, I thought this was something the state department offers and recommends for any foreign travel, not just recommended for the NA?

 

[scubaaaronh]

This was the first time i have ever seen this statement on bonaire. It was on a bonaire newsletter and the first time i had seen it, so i thought i would pass it along

 

[WarmWaterDiver]

Cool - I was just wondering if this was now targeted specifically for the NA as part of the Natalie Holloway tragedy or something - but that's not the case I see.

 

[AlanWald]

If you travel with a cell phone that can receive email , when you are registered with the USA embassy for a certain country and time period, if there were to be a disaster or something else, the embassy can send you emails about what to do.

 

[cowboyneal]

Its all about knowing where everyone is at every moment..."register" with the government? I mean really...sheesh...

 

[WarmWaterDiver]

Sure - if I disappeared on a trip, I hope this helps my less than focused brother and sister maybe track me down, or at least help get the State Department to do it. While I'm certainly no fashion model, people do disappear on vacations sometimes. Like the couple the real story behind the 'Open Water' movie was loosely based on - like Natalie Holloway - Like Amy Bradley (did I mention I registered for both my recent trips to the NA?).

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8143921/

I'm not engaging in any activities where I worry about someone knowing where I'm supposed to be - it just might help though if I'm not where I'm supposed to be.

 

[cowboyneal]

Yeah, don't worry about the government...I would wager to guess that if you 'disappeared' somewhere, the state department wouldn't be all that fired up to spend the time it would take to find you, unless you were Anna Nicole Smith...I don't engage in any activities I have to worry about (when did that get into the discussion?), personally, but again, when you trust these government morons to just do whatever it is they are suggesting, then poof, your privacy goes right out the window...hey, if you don't care about that, great for you, but I do (care about my privacy)...our government has become too intrusive and controlling under the present regime...

 

[WarmWaterDiver]

I suppose I don't think my privacy is intact anyway, so no big deal. Let's see, there's the airline itinerary, the passport numbers the folks at the Continental check-in counter will put into the system when we check our baggage, our credit card records, and my threads here on Scubaboard for anyone who doesn't already know where and when I'm going.

I do think the government is more likely to snap to and start hunting for me than my kin folk are (you've never met them, I have a lifetime of experience with them).

I simply stated my reasons for registering - not sure why you're wondering why that got into that discussion. Why not?

I never said I trusted anyone, government or not. If I did, I wouldn't be registering (again, you haven't met my kin folk).

 

[WarmWaterDiver]

Almost for got my rental vehicle reservation- electronic footprints all over the place!

Honestly - anyone who thinks not registering with the State Department keeps their privacy intact?