Missouri Law Review Volume 45 Issue 1 Winter 1980 Article 7 Winter 1980 Improving Competence in the Merchant Marine: Suspension and Revocation Proceedings Eugene R. Fidell Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/mlr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Eugene R. Fidell, Improving Competence in the Merchant Marine: Suspension and Revocation Proceedings, 45 MO. L. REV. (1980) Available at: https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/mlr/vol45/iss1/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at University of Missouri School of Law Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Missouri Law Review by an authorized editor of University of Missouri School of Law Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Fidell: Fidell: Improving Competence in the Merchant Marine: MISSOURI LAW REVIEW Volume 45 Winter 1980 Number 1 IMPROVING COMPETENCE IN THE MERCHANT MARINE: SUSPENSION AND REVOCATION PROCEEDINGS " EUGENE R. FIDELL I. INTRODUCMON Although the public has become increasingly familiar with such func- tions of the United States Coast Guard as water pollution control,' nar- cotics interdiction 2 and fisheries law enforcement,3 and despite growing concern over the condition of the United States merchant marine, little attention has been paid to the agency's role with regard to the competency and discipline of merchant mariners.4 Similarly, the National Transporta- tion Safety Board is far better known for its work in the investigation of aviation and maritime disasters5 than for its appellate functions with "Partner, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby &, MacRae, Washington, D.C.; B.A., Queens College, 1965; LL.B., Harvard University, 1968.