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50 years old, without a proper birthday party this year ( thank you corona..)
12 years as a pilot
2 years offshore/tugboats
8 years with juvenile delinquents mv Koningin Juliana, mv Smal Agt
8 years Navy: minehunter, explosive ordnance clearance
2 years army: artillery sergeant

Why am I here?

my goal is zero accidents due to fawlty pilot boarding arrangements. I try to achieve this by my posts on linkedin and the articles I have written aswell as the very good facebook page ‘dangerousladders’

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Ships Pilot Elevator System
"in my own tally 55% of the pilot boarding syste..."
Arie Palmers - on 01.08.2020, 21:15 UTC
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Opinion A deliberately sabotaged Pilot Ladder

by Arie Palmers - published on 16 March 2022

A court sentenced a captain to a total of 30 months imprisonment: It had been proven beyond doubt that the side ropes had been manipulated to make a ship inspection more difficult or to prevent it.

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Article Murphy's law on pilot boarding - Arie Palmers

by Arie Palmers - published on 20 July 2021

"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."

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Article The Story of the #dangerousladders group on Facebook

by Arie Palmers - published on 21 January 2021

The “DangerousLadder” page on facebook is nowadays a very well known community in the maritime world. It is steadily growing towards 3000 members, which will be the next milestone membership-wise.

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Opinion The IMPA Pilot Ladder Poster: Suggestions for Improvements

by Arie Palmers - published on 31 December 2020

In this article I would like to share my thoughts on this pilot ladder poster. Is it as good as we think or is there room for improvement? By taking you through this poster step by step I hope to explain what needs to be changed to make it similar to IMO an SOLAS regulations.

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