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A U.S. federal pilot shares his experience navigating icy waters on Lake Michigan.

Enjoy the tour from Bridge to Pilot ladder, disembarking of Danpilot.

Pilots boarding the M/V Hodaka Galaxy with the San Francisco Bar Pilots.
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Footage of deep tanker Felicity navigating through the treacherous waters of the Port Philip Heads channel entrance.

Improvements to pilots’ situation awareness (SA) in maritime navigation are critical to reducing human errors, which have caused 75% to 96% of marine accidents over the last few years.

The Maritime Pilots Institute is the premier training facility for River Pilots employing a mix of virtual and real world facilities. Located in Covington Louisiana, we are 45 minutes from downtown New Orleans while offering the safety and amenities of small town life.
The training presents a balance between simulated locations with a variety of environmental conditions and manned scale models of cargo ships in a series of lakes with docking and currents and live factors such as wind and...

Ships don't exactly have brakes. Lou Vest, a retired Houston ship channel pilot tells us about a close encounter between a ship and a barge.
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The IMPA Safety Survey 2022 is just a few days away! You can submit your reports from 1st to 15th October.

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.