[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 46, Volume 1]
[Revised as of Octobery 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 46CFR12.10-7]

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                           TITLE 46--SHIPPING
 
         CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
 
PART 12_CERTIFICATION OF SEAMEN--Table of Contents
 
                        Subpart 12.10_Lifeboatman
 
Sec. 12.10-7  General provisions respecting merchant mariner's document 
endorsed as lifeboatman.

    A merchant mariner's document endorsed as able seaman is the 
equivalent of a certificate as lifeboatman or of an endorsement as 
lifeboatman and will be accepted as either of these wherever

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either is required by law; provided, however, that, when the holder 
documented as an able seaman has to be certificated as either proficient 
in survival craft and rescue boats or proficient in fast rescue boats, 
he or she shall hold an endorsement under the STCW (incorporated by 
reference in Sec. 12.01-3).

[CGD 95-062, 62 FR 34537, June 26, 1997; CGD 95-062, 62 FR 40140, July 
25, 1997, as amended by USCG-1999-5610, 67 FR 66069, Oct. 30, 2002]