Fédération Française des Pilotes Maritimes (FFPM)

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Evening Pilotage of inward entry to Rio De Janeiro on Aframax tanker.

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.

Video showing marine pilot navigating a cargo ship from Plan du Port

Inbound San Juan harbor new pilot boat build by Safehaven marine

Vessel Review by BairdMaritime.com. The Pilot boat was build by Safehaven Marine.

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!

With ships as large as 175 feet wide and a channel a maximum of 500 feet wide, how to you safely pass? Former Houston ship channel pilot, Lou Vest, explains how ships fight against hydrodynamics to pass with such narrow margins.
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