fighting back against foreign mariners in GoM

[Azimuth]

Renew!!!!!!!!!please.

[Jon]

I would strongly suggest that you renew. I believe that you will continue to see a return on your investment.

[Jones Act]

Done!

Now please tell your friends to use it!

http://capwiz.com/jonesactquestions/...SS=Take+Action

[Corky]

No problem John...thanks for your support

Btw...RED ALERT

If anyone here goes to RigZone today they will see that Veolia Environmental Services has postings for ALL vessel positions. This is a BULLSHIT RUSE and DECEIPTFUL! They have all those positions filled with foreign nationals on the KINGFISHER and are only running those ads to show to the USCG that they are "trying" to recruit Americans for those positions. You will notice that in none of there ads to they say that US citizenship is a requirement. If one follows RigZone like I do, they will recall that Veolia runs these exact same ads every six months or so. One time more than a year ago, I responded to one of these and managed to talk to some port captain in their Lafayette office and he told me point blank and this is no BS..."OH, WE ONLY RUN THOSE ADS BECAUSE WE HAVE TO!"

Letters need to be sent by US mariners to the USCG Office to issues the waivers to Veolia and Caldive that we ARE available for these jobs and qualified to do them!

The office in Washington DC is:

J.F. Williams
Chief, Foreign and Offshore Vessel Division (CG-5432)
U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters
2100 Second Street SW
Washington DC 20593-0001
(202) 372-2275 v.
(202) 372-1917 f.

email: greg.e.cable@uscg.mil

They need to stop hearing only from the f'ing lawyers on K Street and start hearing from US! This has got to STOP and it is up to US to stop it!

for more information go to http://americanprofessionalmariners.blogspot.com/ and thanks for the support

Aha,

That explains a lot! I have a buddy who works for Veolia who is a US mariner, but all his pix show foreign folks. I applied a few times when they first started running their ads & never heard back, so I asked him if they were still hiring. He sounded pretty disgusted & told me he would try to help, but not to plan on working on any of thier boats.

BTY I do know that Maersk is using some US mariners, an old master of mine recently moved to their GoM rig.

Also, from what I was told by Helix, they plan to man the Caesar with all American officers because they have found it is far too expensive in the long run when they do it the other way. I was offfered one of the CE slots on her, but the pay was pretty rock bottom. . . . especially considering the headaches she will be with all the new technology Helix incorporated on her.