If you are guilty of failure to properly...

🔍 Key Concepts

• 46 CFR Part 5 – Marine Investigation Regulations (misconduct, negligence, incompetence) • Differences between credential actions (suspension, revocation, warning) and civil penalties/fines • Who the Coast Guard penalizes with a fine – the mariner personally, or the credential/document itself

💭 Think About

• Think about which of the listed options are explicitly described in 46 CFR Part 5 as possible outcomes of a misconduct/negligence investigation against a mariner. • Ask yourself: when the Coast Guard issues a civil penalty, is the penalty applied to the person or to a physical/document credential? • Consider which three of these look like well‑known outcomes of a Suspension and Revocation (S&R) proceeding, and which one looks different in how it’s worded.

✅ Before You Answer

• Verify in 46 CFR 5.201–5.203 what actions the Coast Guard may take against a mariner’s Merchant Mariner Credential (MMC). • Check whether Coast Guard regulations ever describe a fine being placed “against a credential” versus against the mariner as an individual. • Confirm which actions are part of Suspension & Revocation proceedings (revocation, suspension, letter of warning) and which type of action belongs under civil penalty procedures instead.

If you are guilty of failure to properly perform your duties as Master of Uninspected Towing Vessels, which of the following actions may NOT be taken?

Revocation of your Merchant Mariner Credential

Suspension of your Merchant Mariner Credential

Issuance of a letter of warning

A fine placed against your Merchant Mariner Credential

🔍 Key Concepts

💭 Think About

✅ Before You Answer