USCG-OICEW-L2.3
The watchkeeping requirement
USCG-OICEW-M2 · OICEW — STCW III/1 · USCG-OICEW-M2-A The first STCW engineering endorsement
The sea service at 11.329(a)(1) is one requirement. The **watchkeeping** at 11.329(a)(2) is another. They overlap in time — the watchkeeping months are also sea service months — but the watchkeeping has conditions attached that ordinary engine-department service does not.
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