Pilot

At Humber Maritime College we have state-of-the-art marine simulators to teach our Merchant Navy cadets in an environment close to reality, preparing them for a career at sea.

Speaker: Capt David (Duke) Snider FNI, Martech Polar Consulting Ltd and NI Past President
Drawing on local expertise and a wealth of practical experience, the British Columbia Branch discusses the many and varied challenges of pilotage in a changing Arctic.

Great video from Argentina. But a backpack is not recommended in combination with a life vest.

According to Briggs Marine: The PV “FULMAR” of Liverpool, an ORC 136 fast Pilot Craft, has been launched at Goodchild Marine Services Ltd.

ABP’s Port of Southampton has officially named its brand-new pilot launch, Mayflower.

Pilot boat coming into harbor in Victoria and making a perfect landing

In this movie the efficiency of two different pod operation strategies is compared: With azimuth propeller ships the Pods can be used in two ways to control the speed, e.g. for speed reduction: 1. by adjusting the engine orders, e.g. by reducing the RPMs to get lower speed - this means to drive the ship in the same conventional way as for twin screw vessels, 2. by turning both pods either in- or outward (TOE-IN or TOE-OUT) to reduce the forward thrust and therefore reducing the speed – the...

In the video shared, made by the Coast Guard communication department during the training days held at the Decimomannu and Pescara bases, some of the phases of the training, such as take-off-departure and 'winching' the pilot on board, are illustrated in sequence.