Cargo ship crushes tugboat in Panama Canal

A pilot of Sandy Hook, Dennis Sherwood fell off a ladder while boarding a ship today at 4:30 a.m. and died of his serious injury in Staten Island hospital.

The transfer of pilots to and from seagoing vessels should not rely solely on mutual trust and good intentions.

To monitor the vessel’s progress, the pilot had set up his portable pilotage unit (PPU). He had connected the rate-of-turn generator to the vessel’s pilot plug and had set a variable range marker on the radar with a radius of 0.5 nm.

On August 5, 2020 at approximately 10:30 pm, Sandy Hook Pilot Captain Timothy M. Murray was involved in an incident while boarding a tanker vessel inbound to the Port of New York & New Jersey. He sustained injuries after falling from a pilot ladder and was evacuated to a local hospital where his injuries proved to be fatal.

The ship could not slow down and sailed against the Old North Lock - “Alte Schleuse Nord”.

The All India Maritime Pilots' Association has released its new journal for May

The latest summary from PTR Holland on the subject of pilot ladders. Here is the most important information on maintenance, use and replacement & insepection record book.

Harbour pilots perform tricky operations boarding big cruise ships from fast pilot boats. Auckland and Malta.