Land and Sea: Sea Harbour Pilots

by Kenya Citizen TV

A maritime pilot tells us about why he loves switching ships in midstream.

PILOT LAUNCH SCAPA PATHFINDER IN ACTION...4/5/2020

The San Francisco Bar Pilots are one of the important cogs in our supply chain wheel. They are tasked with boarding the vessels eleven miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge via a rope ladder often in rough seas and taking control of the vessels en route to the Port of Stockton. Once on the bridge of the ship, the Pilot oversees navigation and ensures the safe passage of ships into the Bay and through the Delta until it is secured alongside its berth at the Port. Without these Pilots the...

Full transit of the Panama Canal. Shot on the Ocean Princess on February 28th 2016 by Steve Noble. Pacific ocean to the Atlantic ocean, 11 hour transit seen in under 7 minutes.
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The collision of 3 ships, an unfortunate event that highlighted the importance of human factors on accident causation,

South Australian port operator Flinders Ports (FP) has entered into an agreement to purchase three new pilot vessels over the next three years from Melbourne-based boatbuilder Hart Marine.

IMPA has just released the results of the annual IMPA safety campaign, please have a look at the document. This year the non-compliances worldwide vary from 5% up to 70%....You can check your working area in the attachment.

The pilots say that Port Tampa Bay leadership is leaning on them to change policies in ways they say would be less safe.