Port Captain North Tasmania & Loadmaster

Footage showing the ARCADIA leaving Tilbury Landing Stage and PLA pilot boarding sugar ship bound for Thames Refinery. footage taken from the documentary short film ' Till I End My Song'

#PilotVessel "SEA MASTER"/ On board #BulkCarrierShip "S SAMBA" #KM239_1 #Recalada #PuntaIndioChannel #RioDeLaPlata #Argentina/ 24th. September 2024 - 09:07 Local Time.- On this video (with original sound), you can watch the Pilot Vessel "SEA MASTER", arrived at #KM239_1 #Recalada #boardingpoint #PuntaIndioChannel to disembark the Rio de la Plata Pilots. This video was filmed on board the following Vessel: Bulk Carrier Ship "S SAMBA" - Call Sign: V7IU6 - IMO Number: 9712486 - Flag: MARSHALL...

At one point, the Captain on the Ship while being highly respected, also carried great responsibility and had the ultimate accountability for everything on board. But this respect, responsibility and accountability has not come overnight, or just when the Captain wears his four stripes.

A Pilot with the San Francisco Bar Pilots boards off the ATB Cape Ann, sailing out of San Francisco.

University of York: Here, Dr Kate Preston explains why we need to fully understand the complexity maritime pilotage before we can integrate technology like autonomy.

With only 10 days of preparation time, NAUTITEC successfully executed a high-end simulation of the Odyssey`s river-passage on a scientific level and they are glad to have seen simulation become reality once again.

Exemplary manoeuvre: The pilot should always walk on the side of the pilot boat facing away from the vessel. This prevents the pilot from being trapped between the two vessels in the event of a fall into the water.