twic card update!!!

[Capt -Jerry P]

Just got this news from the charter association

Twic card deadline

Dear NACO Member,
 
All USCG licensed individuals are required to obtain a TWIC by the 1st week in April 2009.  Failure to obtain a TWIC by the required date could result in your license being revoked.  It makes no difference what you do with your license, if you don't use it, if you operate a 6 pak, an overload vessel, headboat, guide boat, parasail, oil field, whatever, you will need a TWIC.
 
The easiestt way to get one is to register online at http://twicinformation.tsa.dhs.gov/twicinfo/CenterSearchAction.do follow all of the instructions to set up an appointment.
 
Keeping You Informed,
National Association of Charterboat Operators

[IrishAyes]

They were looking the TWIC no longer being required by Charter Boat operators as they have no need to go into restricted areas in ports, etc. Apparently, once they found the cash cow this program is, they did not want to release any of the money they collected. 

[Pfishingruven]

That figures, hit the hard working American with more requirements that cost money!  100 some odd dollars for a plastic card and 15 minutes of work... unreal.  I wish I made that figure an hour.  I guess you Boat Captains need it in case the Charter of Terrorists want to blow up one of the wrecks or the Mud Hole !

 

[Capt. Carl]

yup....another money maker that you cant refuse to do.....you would think all the background checks by the uscg would eliminate the need for this but i guess not!....got my twic long ago!

[Pfishingruven]

you would think all the background checks by the uscg would eliminate the need for this but i guess not!....got my twic long ago!

You'd think with the BILLIONS of dollars of Homeland Security Funding, this TWIC Card could be covered as an expense under that?  I like too, when they always say..."well it's only a 100 or so dollars!"  If I had a penny for the number of times you heard that...we would all be fishing at a private tropical island for the rest of our lives!

 

[Luna Sea 5]

good info for the Capts

[Capt. Joe G]

$132.50 and again finger printing and applications and paperwork only to have to wait weeks for the damn thing in the mail!! enough is enough.

[IrishAyes]

The way I recall it, if you got your license within the past half year or so they could use the background invest from that and the fee would have been lower.

I was a cop for 26 years and was still on the job when I got my TWIC card. Still had to have a background invest on me.    Heck, I used to perform background invests on new hires for the job and here I was having one done on me. Go figure. 

As far as a card for charter boat guys, it's all about the Benjamins. 

[CapBob]

When the program originally came out they were not going to require Chater/Party Boat Capt's to have it, then they changed there mind money money money.

If they had a brain, they would combine the MMD Card, your Capt Lic and the Twic into one card..................but nnnnnnnoooooooo they would not get as much money and it would be to easy......

Try to use your TWIC card as an ID somewhere, noone will take it or recognise it not even the TSA at the Airport...............

[Capt. Carl]

yeah....twic seems like a rip off but i tell you what a true rip off is.....the 500 dollar fee charged for a "waiver" to get documented if you never received the original builders certificate when you bought your boat!

[Bucktail]

Try to use your TWIC card as an ID somewhere, noone will take it or recognise it not even the TSA at the Airport...............

It's funny you said this Capt. Bob.  I was selling a gun just yesterday.  I asked for the customer's ID and he pulled out his DL and SBI card.  Then he pulled out his TWIC card and said, "Do you want to see this too?"  I told him I didn't need that card.  I think he knew that I didn't need to see it, but maybe he just felt that after shelling out all that money for it, he might as well show it to someone.

As far as fingerprinting goes.  These are the one thing on your body that never changes.  However, even though I have been fingerprinted and my prints are on file with the ATF (for liquor licenses, FFLs, etc.) I still need to get my prints re-done every time I get a new job that requires them!  It doesn't make sense.

[IrishAyes]

The way I see it, If he has any type fo CG Mariner's document he will need one.