United Kingdom Maritime Pilots Association (UKMPA)

Article and pictures by Captain W J M Hargreaves, Retired Southampton Pilot

The theory of the 'Swiss cheese' model of incident causation and investigation.

Pilot onboard for Docking to Port of. Klaipeda Lithuania.
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The use of augmented reality (AR), i.e. the addition of computer-generated information to real images, has become established in various areas:

Video: Climbing the pilot ladder, the pilot is hit by Pilot Boat.

Port Everglades Pilots 54’ Pilot Boat No7
With 2x Humphree H750 Interceptors w/Active Ride Control

The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) - streaming their 20th anniversary conference

In this episode we have a chance to meet Ivana-Maria Carrioni-Burnett, a Marine Pilot from the UK who works on the River Thames. Ivana highlights the concerns and fear that can be felt by those working in the maritime industry during COVID19. On the vessel, the seafarers are in their own isolation, or 'families' and then the pilot and other port personnel come onboard and they may be asymptomatic. For the port personnel, they aren't sure if the crew might be infected. Then there are the...

We bid farewell to our Otaru marine pilot just outside Otaru Harbor, Japan. The crew of the pilot tug were particularly fastidious about not marking up the side of the Viking Orion during the operations, spraying the interface with water, even though that might have made the transfer more hazardous for the pilot. From the Viking Orion, October 2024

Korean Pilot boarding PCC Vessel in Mokpo, Korea