Return Pilot AHTO-15 Emden Pilot Baltic Workboats WP 2000 ES3168 MMSI 276005340

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:3628841/mmsi:255806433/imo:9750579/vessel:VESTVIND
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:143113/mmsi:211644150/imo:0/vessel:IZURDIA

http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/211540110/vessel:BURKANA/_:90edd4dc50678df68bf911196fe5240f

Pilot disembarkation from ship (kakinada)
Editors note:
The shown protections are very massive in our opinion.
What does our community think about?

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Inbound Vessel Passing Jungkat Pilot Station. 

Look at Life - Signposts of the Sea (1963)
Narrated by Tim Turner

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