This website is presented, at no charge, as a source of information for mariners by a consortium of maritime trainers.

What do we hope to accomplish? Well for starters, we want to explain exactly what STCW is, and how it affects mariners. We get questions about STCW regularly.People ask for STCW training . . . not really knowing what it is. . . just that they have to get it to keep their license or Z-card.

Want to know the big picture about STCW (click here)? Or, just what you have to do (click here) to get your license or Z-card up to date?

We also want to know what specific questions you may have (click here to email a question to us). The maritime is so diverse that new questions arise everyday.  Send us your questions and we will answer them and then post the information (without using names, of course) for others to benefit from.  Our STCW expertise is supplied by three retired US Coast Guard Commanders, all of whom served in Coast Guard licensing centers. 

If you want to see the questions most frequently asked by other mariners, click here

Finally, we are providing links to sources of US Coast Guard (and other flag state authorities) approved STCW training and related services.

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Email: info@stcw.org

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