Ed, Thanks. needed the website to pre-register.
Noel N.Y. RUSSELL Office Coffee Service "Java Powered Service" -----Original Message----- From: Ed Kelly Sent: Tue, 25 March 2008 13:10:27 To: [email protected] Subject: [Liveaboard] USCG licenses to be invalid without a TWIC card USCG & DHS have announced that if you hold any USCG license (including a Coast Guard 6 pack or any Masters license) you have just 6 months left to get a new piece of plastic or your license will be invalidated. Your license will be invalid after Sept 2008 if you do not get a TWIC Card (Transportation Worker Identity Card) from Homeland Security. To get it you have to go personally to their satellite offices and apply for and pay approx. $130 and produce id, and they will take your personal information to have their contractor, Lockheed, prepare and produce a new biometric id card for you to carry. It can be read by automated readers and USCG personnel with wands in the future if they board your vessel. They are into checking ids now and this is part of the plan for the future to protect our waterways. If you lose your card it costs $60 for a new one. You have to apply for it in person, and then wait one or two months and return to the identical satellite office where you applied to pick up your new TWIC card. They cannot mail or deliver it and if you are traveling, you are out of luck and need to fly back to where you applied. They are issued by each office separately. If you want to schedule an appointment or ask a question you can contact them by phone on their single national site. No local phones to enquir! e at. They can deal with you in either Spanish or English when you call. They have a web site explaining it: www.twicinformation.com Future boardings by the USCG will not only check your boat but also your ID. We would not mind except Sue and I both just got our USCG 6-pack licenses within the last month (including fingerprinting and data on us placed in USCG files). It's now a bit of an aggravation to have to go jumping through a bunch of new hoops all over again. By the way, if you pre-register for a TWIC online. They make you have a complicated secure password to check your status & assign a confidential bar coded ID paper afterwards. My wife applied separately and later found we had the identical 8 digit alpha-numeric password assigned to each of us! Ed Ed Kelly (& Sue Kelly)USSV Angel Louise - lying Brunswick, GAOur Skype Phone (202) 657-6357Email: EdKelly ("at" symbol) netins.net Ed Kelly (& Sue Kelly)USSV Angel Louise - a Catalac catamaranOur Skype Phone (202) 657-6357Email: EdKelly ("at" symbol) netins.net _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
