I'm not affiliated with KP or any of the maritime schools-am a VMI grad here, and former Air Force guy-currently an attorney for the Department of Veterans Affairs. That is, I have no maritime background personally, but have really enjoyed reading these posts about KP.
Anyway, I recently was booking a vacation, and it came up that NCL America's Pride of America is a US-flagged cruise ship doing a route between the Hawaiian Islands. I understand this to be necessary do to the Jones Act prohibition on non-US-flagged vessels calling on ports solely within the US without first stopping at a foreign port. Just out of curiosity, with all I've read on the "sea year" for USMMA, are there any Mids being posted on this ship? I suppose I could think of worse places to be Supposedly NCL used to have 2 other US-flagged ships; but, I guess they were not profitable.
Just throwing it out there-
Anyway, I recently was booking a vacation, and it came up that NCL America's Pride of America is a US-flagged cruise ship doing a route between the Hawaiian Islands. I understand this to be necessary do to the Jones Act prohibition on non-US-flagged vessels calling on ports solely within the US without first stopping at a foreign port. Just out of curiosity, with all I've read on the "sea year" for USMMA, are there any Mids being posted on this ship? I suppose I could think of worse places to be Supposedly NCL used to have 2 other US-flagged ships; but, I guess they were not profitable.
Just throwing it out there-