Casual - Pilot Vessel Master A

Video made for information only.

Raw footage of a an offshore Pilot transfer.
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The pilot boat next to the ship after dropping off the Harbour Pilot

Chapter 3 from the book "Crossing the Bar, The Adventures of a San Francisco Bay Bar Pilot" by Captain Paul Lobo, available on Amazon (link below)

French operator Seine River Pilot Station has expanded its fleet of pilot boats with the recent acquisition of a newbuild vessel from local builder Chantier Naval Delavergne.

Text and photos by Alex Lang, retired pilot, pilot for 28 years in New Zealand and Australia.

Other countries, other morals. What do you think about the work of the ship's crew? Do they work carefully in accordance with the regulations?

On the night of January 1, 2019, MSC Zoe lost approximately 290 containers in heavy weather on the journey from Portugal to Bremerhaven. The loss of so many containers is an exceptional event and is the second largest known container loss of a ship due to heavy weather.

When I was a deck officer back in the early nineties I worked on a ship that used to load grain at different ports along the Mississippi river. The name of the ship was Golden Hope, a 600 feet long dry bulk carrier with a 95 feet in beam. An average size vessel for those days' standards.