Trainee Marine Pilot

Mississippi River Pilot transfer off of south bound ship in the Mississippi River below New Orleans to a Pilot Boat. Pilots climb down rope ladder onto the top of the Pilot Boat while both boats are underway.

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Charleston Harbor pilots play crucial role in safely navigating ships to port

Kollision mit Holtenauer Hochbrücke / NDR Schleswig Holstein Magazin 19:30

Port Canaveral will add a new security patrol vessel and a pilot boat after receiving federal grant funding for several projects to protect against terrorism and other security threats.

Bellomo (Unione Piloti) on ShipMag.it: “Reunification impossibile”

The term pilot is defined as, “a person who is qualified and usually licensed to conduct a ship into and out of a port or in specified waters.” The Merchant Shipping Act 1894 states that, “a pilot is any person not belonging to a ship who has the conduct thereof.”

Does the growth of ships ever have limits? Perhaps less in shipbuilding than in the handling of the ships during piloting.