"Messing In Boats" wrote in message
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Be advised that if you are going to use your Master/OUPV ticket,
meaning take out someone for hire, you must have a Transportation
Worker Identification Credential, or TWIC, which is somehow going to
keep our country safer.

I just picked mine up yesterday and their machine spent a half hour
trying to recognize my fingerprint. I was told that we should wait
until sometime in June when new software will supposedly fix this. I
was also told that there will be no enforcement of the TWIC
requirement until April of 2009, but you might want to check this out
yourself rather than depend upon an irate captain in a newsgroup. I
sure am glad I spent my $134.00, but just knowing how much safer we
are as a result makes it worthwhile.

Capt. Jeff

Makes you sorry the same government isn't supplying health care, doesn't
it?