🔍 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.