Eden Pilot Station & it's Harbour Masters-Pilots

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The IMPA safety campaign will be running from 1st to 15th October 2021.

Course Name: Berthing, Anchoring & other Mooring Operations
Topic Name: Berthing

Shortly after 5 a.m. local time the vessel “Else” had a collision in the Kiel-Holtenau lock to the Kiel Canal.
The "Else" subject to pilotage passed the pilot's boarding position without taking a sea pilot on board and collided from the outside into the closed gate of the new north lock. The bow bored into the metal construction and the ship was stuck for about six hours.
For more information about this accident see related content below (articles).

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