Mooring Equipment Guidelines (MEG4)

Course Name: Berthing, Anchoring & other Mooring Operations
Topic Name: Berthing

"Analysis of reports indicates that pilot ladders (Pilot Transfer Arrangements, or PTAs) and
intentional deviations from safety procedures remain the main causes of near misses..."

The All India Maritime Pilots' Association has released its new journal for May

We we’re out on sea trials with the two newly launched Interceptor 48 pilot boats when the Port of Cork pilot boat ‘Failte’ passed by to undertake a pilot transfer from an outbound ship. It was a nice opportunity to capture some cool video of the action as the boats ran alongside before the ship turned to create a lee for the pilot to disembark. Although the seas weren’t very big, it was blowing hard at the time with gusts of over 50kts recorded at Roches PT lighthouse as we passed.

Presentation by Nick Bonser at the AMPI Conference Wollongong 2022.

Great image video of the Italian pilots (Federazione Italiana Piloti dei Porti).

Actual video of Ships Pilot disembark use with Helicopter

Congratulation to Ahmed Sati for 8,000 moves!

The pilot leaps to his boat accompanied by claps and exclamations of; "Bravo!".