Not commericial, just for fun and taking pictures. I've sold a few pictures
here and there for publication, but I don't do any active marketing.
Maybe if I retire.


"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:13:25 -0700, "Chuck Tribolet"
wrote:

No, I'm only under way 1.2 hours a day, on average. I'm anchored and
diving maybe 4-5 hours each day I'm out.

Ah - well, that makes perfect sense then. Can't very well be
operating your boat while underwater unless you have a really cool
remote control deal.

So I take your point as a good one.

However, most folk don't operate that way. It might be that one would
go for 40 minutes to a fishing ground and 40 minutes back the rest of
the time fishing, lounging or whatever, but you are still "operating"
in the sense that you are alert for potential problems and can act if
problems do arise. And technically, if you are drift fishing, you are
underway - sort of.

And consider this - if a tanker is anchored, is the watch officer
disqualified from counting his watch hours as operational time? :)

To my way of thinking though, I wouldn't denigrate your experience as
being a disqualified for an OUPV license. You would certainly have
the experience in terms of operating hours - it's just spaced out
weird.

By the way, is the diving commercial of some sort?