Marine Pilot Manager

This webinar is part of the Resilient Positioning Navigation and Timing Seminar Series.

The National Transportation Board said Thursday that a Mississippi River towing vessel’s pilot and its captain pushed its tow up against a riverbank too close to a railroad track, leading to a collision and train derailment near Galland, Iowa.

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.

Pilot Boat working close to shore, but not the best of weather.

Pilot of cargo ship Ever Forward, which ran aground in Chesapeake Bay last year, gives up license

This report on incidents involving vessels under pilotage, is an update on that issued in 2006. The IG’s first report examined five years of data between 1999 and 2004.

Pilot Boarding on PCC Vessel

The vulnerability of GNSS in shore-based use is definitely different and to be regarded as much more risky than on the high seas.