Preparation & Rigging of a Pilot Ladder

A maritime pilot, also known as harbor pilot, is a mariner who maneuvers ships through dangerous or ongested waters, such as harbors or river mouths.

On November the 8th 2020 container feeder vessel Munksund collided with the RoRo cargo vessel Balticborg. The collision occurred, most likely caused by banking conditions, in the eastern section of the Kiel Canal near km 96. This is a combined 2D/3D representation of the collision created with MSG Prospector, MSG Plotter and Google Earth.

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IcePad Demonstration, MARSAT
a product driven by Drift + Noise and TRENZ GmbH, Germany

Grounding container vessel Shahraz and MV Samudra Sakti in Singapore Strait May 10 2020
What happened?
MV "Shahraz" and MV "Samudra Sakti I" had run aground to the shallow Batu Berhanti in the Indonesian territorial waters within 6 minutes, which is surveyed with minimum water depths of 8.3 m in the northern part and up to 0.5 m in the southern part . It is located south of TSS Singapore Strait’s eastbound traffic lane.
A chain of events which must be described as extra ordinary rarity....

Good insight into the work of the pilots in Jamaica.

Text and photos by Alex Lang, retired pilot, pilot for 28 years in New Zealand and Australia.

This is an in-depth discussion of the risks involved in maritime pilot transfers; an interesting job but with a risky commute to work.