Changes

:::Landlocked bodies of water ''are'' inland waters, that should be pretty obvious, I would think. But inland waters, in terms of what a master's license will allow one to navigate, include other bodies of water which have major outlets to the sea, such as bays, rivers, etc. The point, from the coast guard's perspective, is that before one is allowed to command a ship traveling across the Pacific, they should get experience in safer waters which are sheltered and closer to shore. That explains the 3 types of tickets (as they are often referred): inland, near coastal (up to 200 miles from shore, if I recall) and ocean (anywhere). Again, these are slightly esoteric definitions, which is why I wonder if they're the best way to present this information when we don't even have articles on [[bay]]s, [[inlet]]s, [[mariner]]s, [[master's license]], [[coast]]s, and other much more important terms which really should be addressed before we get into things that aren't even covered much in Wikipedia, with their 2 million articles. Seems to be putting the cart before the horse, if you ask me. In any case, I clearly cannot write an article explaining the differences between inland waters and lakes when lakes are inland waters. This is why I think it best to write an [[inlet]] article first, since that's the term I should have used in the first place. And please keep in mind I'm not expert on any of this. I don't have any master's license, but have worked beneath people who did, and got an object lesson in some of this when a voyage was almost delayed because the new mate did not have the license we thought he did. Those are my thoughts, anyway. [[User:Jaguar|Jaguar]] 00:06, 28 May 2008 (EDT)

:::Landlocked bodies of water ''are'' inland waters, that should be pretty obvious, I would think. But inland waters, in terms of what a master's license will allow one to navigate, include other bodies of water which have major outlets to the sea, such as bays, rivers, etc. The point, from the coast guard's perspective, is that before one is allowed to command a ship traveling across the Pacific, they should get experience in safer waters which are sheltered and closer to shore. That explains the 3 types of tickets (as they are often referred): inland, near coastal (up to 200 miles from shore, if I recall) and ocean (anywhere). Again, these are slightly esoteric definitions, which is why I wonder if they're the best way to present this information when we don't even have articles on [[bay]]s, [[inlet]]s, [[mariner]]s, [[master's license]], [[coast]]s, and other much more important terms which really should be addressed before we get into things that aren't even covered much in Wikipedia, with their 2 million articles. Seems to be putting the cart before the horse, if you ask me. In any case, I clearly cannot write an article explaining the differences between inland waters and lakes when lakes are inland waters. This is why I think it best to write an [[inlet]] article first, since that's the term I should have used in the first place. And please keep in mind I'm not expert on any of this. I don't have any master's license, but have worked beneath people who did, and got an object lesson in some of this when a voyage was almost delayed because the new mate did not have the license we thought he did. Those are my thoughts, anyway. [[User:Jaguar|Jaguar]] 00:06, 28 May 2008 (EDT)