Foreign Passenger Vessel Examiner Course

The Cruise Ship NCOE holds 3 courses per year underway on a cruise ship.  While our course is designed for training and certification of Coast Guard Port State Control Officers, we also enroll industry representatives as a bilateral training opportunity.  Our courses are generally held in the autumn (Nov-Dec), winter (Jan-Feb), and spring (Mar-Apr) seasons. Industry participants (i.e., cruise line staff, Classification Society surveyors, Flag Administration inspectors, Port State inspectors) are invited to attend our course.  We typically enroll 8 students in addition to the 16 Coast Guard students, per class.

All interested parties may email our Course Coordinator Mr. Jesionowski at eric.s.jesionowski@uscg.mil.

Interested Coast Guard members should submit an Electronic Training Request through their training officer.  The pre-requisites for this course are: 1) Certified Port State Control Examiner, 2) Rank of E5 or above, and 3) 80% completion on the FPVE PQS.