Winter Edition of the BPC Pilotage Quarterly published

Pilotage of cargo ship in Tampa (USA).

The man-overboard manoeuvre includes all measures to rescue a person who has fallen overboard from a watercraft.

"Rope Ladders" by PTR Holland

These are images that no one wants to see. How can people take such a risk and behave so unprofessionally? Purely a matter of luck whether you come home again in the evening!

A marine pilot who sadly died after a ‘fall from a pilot ladder’ in the Humber Estuary has now been named. Video credit: BBC Look North/BBC News Hub

What is causing the forward motion of a stopped vessel using continous bow thruster action?
by Capt. H. Cauvier