Marine Pilot / Oman

Port authorities in Antwerp, Belgium, are making use of EMSA’s Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) to support their day-to-day monitoring of port operations and rapid response to pollution incidents in the port area. The RPAS will enable the authorities to inspect at a distance their complex port environment which extends over an area of some 120km².

Pilotage is being able to navigate safely into and out of a harbour/anchorage/port knowing where you are at all times, where your hazards are and a safe route in/out. This is particularly useful if you are heading into somewhere new or a challenging/busy area – or both!

This is how a ship Pilot boarding a vessel in calm seas.

Pilot boat "Muir Pilot" departing Pirate Harbour

Embarque de Práctico en buque La Fresnais. Puerto de Montevideo, Canal de Acceso.

One of the most grandiose video about Marine Pilots' work. Must see!

Australasian Marine Pilots Institute (AMPI) latest of edition of Safe Passage including articles from Nic G. "Passenger Ship Redundancy", Karolina Cirjak "Pilots are not advisors to the Masters", Clive Sheard "Digitising Pilotage Peer Learning", Arie Palmers "A 1000 Navy Vessels Around", Matthew Conyers "Meanwhile in Brisbane", Robert Tanner Wollongong Conference.

This is an "only in Astoria" moment we get to see every day.

Interesing film about the work of the Laurentian Pilotage Authority (Canada).