Pilot boat "Perseus" from The Netherlands

Beloodsingen Met Swath "Cetus" en aan boord Pilot Station Vessel "Pollux" @ Steenbank Pilot-station @ Schouwenbank.

What do you think about this unusual manoeuvre here?

Harbour pilots perform tricky operations boarding big cruise ships from fast pilot boats. Auckland and Malta.

Marine pilot

Pilot leaves the Regent Seven Seas Navigator at Halifax

Recently Capt. Troy Evans did a research into the breaking strength of various securing methods. To quantify the problem of unsafe practices, now is time to have a survey into the number of the various securing methods used worldwide.

When I was a deck officer back in the early nineties I worked on a ship that used to load grain at different ports along the Mississippi river. The name of the ship was Golden Hope, a 600 feet long dry bulk carrier with a 95 feet in beam. An average size vessel for those days' standards.

Pilot of cargo ship Ever Forward, which ran aground in Chesapeake Bay last year, gives up license