Pilot Boarding

www.turkishpilots.org.tr , Maritime Pilot , Turkish Straits , İstanbul Strait

Editor's note: The pilot boarding seems a bit improvised and unsafe to me, but that's certainly business as usual, isn't it?

Original title: "Watch how this Japanese pilot managed to get off the ship in bad weather condition"

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