Is the U. S. Coast Guard bankrupting the owners of ocean freighters?

"Seized" A sea captain's adventures.
by Max Hardberger.

Excerpt taken from page 151:
"For example the Mobile Coast Guard inspectors are wild dogs. The problem in the United States is that ships are inspected by Coast Guard officers who may or may not know anything about ship construction or condition. Many are so called Ninety-Day Wonders who come out of the Coast Guard's three month training course-some of them from Iowa or Montana and have never seen a ship before- and are immediately able to go aboard ocean freighter in the nation's ports and bankrupt owners."


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