Video Inbound San Juan harbor new pilot boat build by Safehaven marine
published on 17 April 2020
Video CMA CGM Columbia feat. two harbour pilot boats (2.7K)
published on 31 December 2020
CMA CGM Columbia container ship arriving from Shekou port, and transiting thru Hong Kong, destination Singapore
a rare capture of TWO harbour pilots boats to carry two pilots leaving off the container ship
Columbia is only a 300m long 48m wide vessel, only 9200 TEU capacity but it has separate bridge tower and chimney. The ship was built in 2015.
Video Pilot Boat
published on 16 June 2025
Video The Safest Pilot Boarding? A SWATH Vessel
published on 27 November 2024
Video Safehaven Marine Interceptor 48 pilot boat for the Gdynia Pilots in Poland
published on 6 July 2020
Article Improving Teams Performance in Pilotage Waters
by Herman Broers - published on 31 March 2022
Video Wind drift making headway - practical experiments for getting useful data for planning
published on 30 May 2022
Video Delaware River Pilots - 2013
published on 26 May 2020
Article #dangerousladders - Using social media to improve pilot transfer safety.
by Kevin Vallance deep sea pilot and author - published on 12 December 2019
It remains a sad fact that accidents and near misses continue to occur during pilot transfers with frightening regularity. Most of these fortunately do not result in injury, and a surprisingly high number of them are not even recognised for what they are.
Surveys into pilot ladder safety consistently reveal that unacceptably high numbers of pilot transfer arrangements are not compliant with the regulations.