If the examining medical practitioner doubts the applicant’s ability to meet the guidelines contained within this table, and for all applicants with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 40.0 or higher, the practitioner shall require that the applicant demonstrate the ability to meet the guidelines. The operative wording on the CG physical form is: If you look up your height and weight on one of those online BMI calculators it probably will show you as overweight. It sounds like whoever told you that is using the CG standard for their own members, not the merchant mariner’s standard. What the hell is that? I can see my damn ribs!! The answer is an 8 page annual physical, with way more questions than necessary, and this will make a ‘defacto’ way of thinning the ranks of us older guys, who traditionally used to be secure in our jobs until WE were ready to go, now it is up to US to keep in shape to keep our jobs!Ĭoast Guard says I’m overweight …5’10" 181 pounds according to the chartĪnd I work out every day, mostly. I guess they couldn’t do anything with CEMS, so they’re going to do it this way (BMI). ferry crash they are looking at BMI, and sleep deprivation.
COAST GUARD BODY FAT CALCULATOR LICENSE
If you doubt this, ask a USCG inspector next time you see them! This is what the ‘voluntary suspension’ clause is used for to give you time to have ‘therapy’ to fix your issues! Like marraige, financial, and drug treatment! Once completed you can ‘apply’ to get your license back! Then the USCG found a way to get into our personal lives, (post accident of course) via issues like marital harmony, financial stress, and prescription drug use. So it DID have an effect on the quality of mariners. The thought that they can test for ‘past’ use via a urine test smacks of: “Hey, I’m on my time off, what business is it of theirs?” But it HAS eliminbated almost all of the recreational drug users, and all the alcohol use aboard. At first I thought the random drug test was intrusive.
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