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To: Gay State Conservative
A Duck Boat driver on a lake is not a seaman. 190 years is appropriate for serial killers, not tour guides hired to tell jokes and drive at less than ten miles an hour in an amphibious boat built on a truck frame.
11 posted on 11/12/2018 5:33:13 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: higgmeister

170 years


13 posted on 11/12/2018 5:40:55 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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A Duck Boat driver on a lake is not a seaman.

A Duckboat driver is required to have a 100 ton Master's license.

"Any vessel that is authorized to carry more than six paying passengers must have on board a captain who holds a Master license. Ferry boats, harbor tour boats, whale watching, and water taxis are examples of inspected vessels."

16 posted on 11/12/2018 5:55:18 PM PST by Chuckster (Battlestar Galactica is not fiction)
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To: higgmeister
18 U.S. Code § 1115 - Misconduct or neglect of ship officers

Every captain, engineer, pilot, or other person employed on any steamboat or vessel, by whose misconduct, negligence, or inattention to his duties on such vessel the life of any person is destroyed, and every owner, charterer, inspector, or other public officer, through whose fraud, neglect, connivance, misconduct, or violation of law the life of any person is destroyed, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

When the owner or charterer of any steamboat or vessel is a corporation, any executive officer of such corporation, for the time being actually charged with the control and management of the operation, equipment, or navigation of such steamboat or vessel, who has knowingly and willfully caused or allowed such fraud, neglect, connivance, misconduct, or violation of law, by which the life of any person is destroyed, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

21 posted on 11/12/2018 6:35:05 PM PST by IndispensableDestiny
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