The U.S. Coast Guard has filed a pair of complaints against a shipping captain, alleging he sexually harassed and sent inappropriate messages to a cadet from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point in 2017 and to a Baldwin woman who was working as chief cook of another vessel in 2021, records show. The USMMA complaint, which was filed last month, seeks the suspension and revocation of Capt. Joseph McCann's license and merchant mariner credentials. J. Ryan Melogy, a maritime employment attorney, said he believed the complaint regarding the USMMA cadet is the first by the Coast Guard under the Safer Seas Act, which became law in late December making sexual harassment grounds for suspension and revocation.

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