Pilotage in a strong current

Great pictures from Estonia

It is not often that this blog is used to show bad practice, however in this case some pictures tell a whole story. Ship is compliant by design for rigging a combination. How about the operator(s)?

Hardest part of getting on board of a ship is climbing up on a maximum height of pilot ladder as 9m. Vessel on that video is a 27kdwt bulk carrier in ballast condition bound for İstanbul strait northbound passage.

Video review singkat di pilot boat christina 98 di jetty MPA Muara Brunei Darussalam. #pelautindonesia #BruneiDarussalam #PilotBoat Song: Abandoned & GalaxyTones - Luna (Feat. DNAKM) [Mendum Remix] [NCS Release] Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds Free Download/Stream: http://NCS.io/LunaRMX Watch: http://youtu.be/eV-9l9AzA6c

Pilot boat build by Safehaven Marine

Here is the latest version of the professional handbuch of "pilot Ladder Safety" for the rigging and the use of pilot ladders by Herman Broers from July 2021.

Container ship MADRID TRADER ran aground in fairway while entering Mar del Plata Port, Argentina, at around 1830 UTC Jan 20, with pilot on board.

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....