Certificates for the high seas.
Section 10
SECTION. 10. Certificates for the high seas.—The board of marine examiners is hereby further authorized to certify for n certificate all applicants for certificate as watch officers and engineers upon seagoing Philippine vessels, where nautical instruments are used to navigate the vessel on the high seas. (a) An applicant for certificate as master, mate or engineer under this section shall surrender to the board his Philippine coastwise certificate and evidence satisfactory to it, showing that he has served on the surrendered certificate for two years or longer on a vessel of six hundred tons gross or more, for a master or mate, or with an engine of fifty actual horsepower or more, for an engineer, and such other evidence of competency and good character as the board in its discretion may require. (b) Successful applicants shall be issued an ocean going certificate equivalent to the one surrendered entitling them to serve on vessels operating on the high seas or in the Philippine coastwise trade.