A containership collided with a Pilot boat inside taipei harbour

off Taipei, bit choppy seas

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Based on MAIB Safety Digest 1/2025, Case 12, published April 2025 by the UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB).

To monitor the vessel’s progress, the pilot had set up his portable pilotage unit (PPU). He had connected the rate-of-turn generator to the vessel’s pilot plug and had set a variable range marker on the radar with a radius of 0.5 nm.

Incident between pilot boat and practical Nissos Chios (Balearia), leaving the port of Ceuta (Spain). June 2019

The Maryland Board of Pilots has decided to enact a rule change that forbids on-duty pilots from using their phones.

The All India Maritime Pilots' Association has released its new journal for October.

MAN Engines is equipping nine pilot boats from the shipyard Goodchild Marine Services Ltd. in Norfolk, Great Britain, with in-line six-cylinder engines. This is the engine manufacturer's first entry into the British pilot boat segment.

A wonderful poem by Gaylen K. Bunker found on YouTube. As read by the author from bis book "Poems".