Watching the Columbia River Bar Pilots in Astoria, OR

Local Harbour Pilot boat in choppy sea at Ramsgate Kent England, filmed on 2.4.25

Found on YouTube. Created by "FEDERAZIONE ITALIANA PILOTI DEI PORTI".

Jacobsen Pilot Service, the Port's pilot service since 1924, has acquired a new state-of-the-art pilot boat, The Orion. Learn all about The Orion in this video.

WESTDIEP PILOT (IMO: 9568988) is a Pilot Ship that was built in 2011 (10 years ago) and is sailing under the flag of Belgium.

A containership arriving in Taiwan hit the berth after traveling in excess of the harbor speed according to reports from the port authority and Taiwan’s Maritime and Port Bureau. They are confirming media reports that the pilot assigned to the vessel was legally intoxicated at the time of the incident.

APL Belgium in rough water near the Farallon Islands pilot station.

Going down the accommodation ladder with neither lifevest nor safety line must have been based on similar, past, successful operations, which may have never been challenged on board. This ‘slippage’ in safety is a pernicious and common phenomenon.