What IS a Pilot?

Watch and learn how a pilot boards a container ship before entering port.
In this video, a container ship bound for Houston, Texas is boarded by a Houston Pilot before entering the Houston Ship Channel.
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Ships don't exactly have brakes. Lou Vest, a retired Houston ship channel pilot tells us about a close encounter between a ship and a barge.
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The IMPA safety campaign will be running from 1st to 15th October 2021.

The vulnerability of GNSS in shore-based use is definitely different and to be regarded as much more risky than on the high seas.

For nearly 150 years, the Bar Pilots have protected our environment by safely guiding ocean-going vessels through our waterways.

South Australian ports operator Flinders Ports (FP) has entered into an agreement to purchase three new Pilot Vessels over the next three years, working with premier boat builders, Melbourne-based Hart Marine.

Check out this footage recently published by Safehaven Marine: This makes me want to become a pilot boat skipper!

Where is it? Maybe Ramsgate?

Inbound Vessel Passing Jungkat Pilot Station.