CFR > Title 46 - Shipping > CHAPTER I—COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY > SUBCHAPTER B—MERCHANT MARINE OFFICERS AND SEAMEN (parts 10 to 16) > PART 12—REQUIREMENTS FOR RATING ENDORSEMENTS > SUBPART 12.25—Certificates of Service for Ratings Other Than Able Seaman or Qualified Member of the Engine Department (§12.25-1 to §12.25-45) > 12.25-30—Student observers.

12.25-30—Student observers.

Students in technical schools who are enrolled in courses in marine management and ship operations who present a letter or other documentary evidence that they are so enrolled shall be issued a MMC endorsed as student observers—any department and may be signed on ships as such. Students holding these endorsements will not take the place of any of the crew, or fill any of the regular ratings.
[CGFR 65-50, 30 FR 16640, Dec. 30, 1965, as amended by USCG-2006-24371, 74 FR 11258, Mar. 16, 2009]