Pilot Boarding Bulk Carrier SAMMY in Saudi Arabia.

Crude Oil Tanker British Robin passing St Anns Head on a rather windy day in Pembrokeshire.

Who has ever boarded a helicopter? What was the feeling like?

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

harbor pilots disembarking in Hong Kong
container ships - IKARIA and YM Excellence

Latest Version: Necessary knowledge about pilot ladders by PTR Holland. Very good summary! Download free of charge.

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A pilot boat caught fire near the entrance of the Port of Recife, on Saturday morning (15 January). The fire would have started around 11h. In a note, the port authority explained that the two people who were in the pilot boat were rescued by another pilot boat "Serrambi".
The causes of the accident had not yet been identified, but would be investigated.

Shipbuilder Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Duclos Corporation, said it has delivered by road transport a new pilot boat to the Lake Pilots in Port Huron, Mich. The Resilient Class high-speed launch Huron Pride is the pilots’ third boat built by the Somerset-Mass. shipyard since 1979.

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