Video Technique Maritime Pilots Use to Board Ships Moving on Polar Ice
published on 22 April 2025
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Video Parking my Ship / Mombasa Kenya / Berthing Process
published on 6 August 2021
Article IcePad, Smart download and view satellite images of sea-ice
by Drift + Noise GmbH - published on 26 July 2019
Video Berthing a Car Carrier in Santa Marta, Colombia
published on 12 April 2021
Video MISSISSIPPI RIVER - pilot onboard - helmsman on action -
published on 22 October 2021
MALACCA STRAIT FROM EAST TO WEST ▶️ https://youtube.com/shorts/UXGMa5Qs4Zo?feature=share MY NORMAL DAYS AS SEAFARER "PACIFIC OCEAN" ▶️ https://youtu.be/kkdh5qv7Jhg Crew Change at Port of Elizabeth, South Africa ▶️ https://youtu.be/l2VtIJG5PuM SANTA BARBARA Popawis🤣🥵💦 ▶️ https://youtu.be/brur6izWHpw RICHARDS BAY, SOUTH AFRICA "APPROACHING" ▶️ https://youtu.be/3zEEmPZMAKc COCA COLA, FINLAND "UNANG TIMON AB - HELMSMAN" 😎🌊⛴🏗 ▶️ https://youtu.be/GmIL1d7ljyE UNEXPECTED ROLLING TWO...
Video Cosco Shipping Galaxy breaks away from Felixstowe as showers passes through. 11th October 2020
published on 13 October 2020
The Cosco Shipping Galaxy alongside Felixstowe Berth 9 cargo operations come to an end with the cranes beginning to boom up. Mooring gang in attendance and the tugs begin to go to station. The pilot requests for both to make fast on the centre lead fore and aft. Svitzer Kent makes fast centre lead aft while the Svitzer Sky makes fast centre lead forward. The Sky comes under the bow to pick up the heaving line but the crew slackens the head lines before the last crane had boomed up. Sky...
Opinion Pilot: “Adviser” and/or “Specialist”?
by Ed Verbeek - published on 27 April 2021
I have had the privilege of being at quite a number of meetings, conferences and seminars, sometimes representing The Netherlands, but mostly representing the Netherlands pilots. I have had many discussions about the role of pilots and pilot organisations, which lead me to write an article “What is the added value of pilotage?”, published in the February 2020 issue of Seaways.
Opinion Piloting in a Pandemic – A Personal Perspective
by William Hargreaves - published on 25 March 2021
Video 2006 Port of London Pilot Capt. Tom Miller - Hebridean Princess
published on 22 November 2023
In 2006 I was invited to join Port of London Pilot Capt. Tom Miller on one of his last few voyages before his retirement. A pilot cutter ferried us from the Gravesend Port office to the Port of London Terminal where the Hebridean Spirit waited for us to board. Once aboard, the ship's captain manoeuvred the vessel off its moorings and into the channel. After handing the vessel over to Capt. Miller, the Captain joined the ship's company for dinner, and the first offer and a helmsman remained...