This video brought me back to the days we sailed with my father on board oil tankers back in 80s and 90. That moment when the door opens and you are greeted by the smell of the ocean, the sound of your feet on the deck, the horizon, how massive the tanker is and how wonderful and unique experience it is. Thank you for this video.

Great job mr pilot every dollar u earn is worthy good job by crew members Good respect for pilot Stay safe always

Why do I find this oddly satisfying?

@riley2005

5 жыл бұрын

Aguywholikes brownstripes wtf

Thank you Edward for enlightening me. I've never been around ships or even boats, so that makes perfect sense. Always something new to learn. Thanks again for your comment.

@odin-legosydhagen9113

5 жыл бұрын

Try a ferry They are exiting

Those windshield wipers are just something else

It is official. There is no way I could do this. Acrophobia and this job do not mix well. Thank you for posting this video Edward. I shall now relive this in my nightmares.

0:38 anyone else tought he was going to jump in the water?

@NitinKumar

5 жыл бұрын

Haha same thought

@afizhafranrakyatkungkingka4078

5 жыл бұрын

Yes

@donovan9356

5 жыл бұрын

Naw you can tell by the type of door

@Apollo20037

5 жыл бұрын

Mattias Ilmjärv ssme lol

@HanhNguyen-lf2iu

4 жыл бұрын

N

The weather's pleasant, bad weather is totally something else, rolling, pitching, swells, crest, troughs could increase difficulty level by more than ten folds...🤗

This is how i feel getting off a bunk bed to go to the toilet

@duck8316

5 жыл бұрын

Me to, I always have to greet some 54 year old crew of sailors before I can finally go to the toilet

@duck8316

5 жыл бұрын

...I live in a weird house

@WelshBlades

4 жыл бұрын

Same 😂

@michaelkegley9838

Жыл бұрын

Bottom bunk always

@Floridamapper369

Жыл бұрын

Same

Thats one hell of a big ship there

the trick is NOT TO LOOK DOWN, I remember climbing ladders at a job the guy said, just look where your going and when your at the top focus at the job in hand

Wow. Now thats a person of nerves of steel. Brave as heck. Tip my hat to them.

The Anti-Clickbait

@anditatan7973

4 жыл бұрын

Pilot afroducky ho

Getting off the ship would be a days work for me .

That kind of climbing only sucks when the ship is rocking and your swinging and trying to aim for the boat at the bottom.

@binrahmat.khairulnizam7743

5 жыл бұрын

Right on, that weather's pleasant, bad weather is totally something else, rolling, pitching, swells, crest, troughs could increase difficulty level by more than ten folds...🤗

Interesting design of windshield wiper (sliding side to side instead of pivoting) on the boat the pilot rode away -- never saw ones like that before.

@SuperPirate100

5 жыл бұрын

More robust , they take a hammering in rough weather , even working underwater if the boat ships a big one

@Lucius_Chiaraviglio

5 жыл бұрын

@@SuperPirate100 Makes sense. I just never saw (or at least never noticed) this design before. Wonder how they keep water from getting in through the slot that the wiper slides in, though.

@scootersandcooters

5 жыл бұрын

Lucius Chiaraviglio gaskets, o rings, etc

A true weather cakewalk day for this !

I felt so sweaty and nervous while watching this. Wow!!!

The rope ladder is where I stop. Forget it. I assume he had to first climb up that thing. FORGET IT.

@AlmostHeavenly

2 ай бұрын

Same!!!!!!

Nice video of disembarking

If this is fairly large cant imagine what really large would be

@MadGeek17

5 жыл бұрын

Maersk triple E-Class is large

@TankR

4 жыл бұрын

fucking ginormous. In a technical sense.

@MacGamerPro_

4 жыл бұрын

VLCC and ULCC are the biggest ships ever made

@jawadad73

11 ай бұрын

whatever it is, they"d better have a working elevator in the accomodation

Just like it is for me to use the bathroom from my bedroom, or it at least it feels that way.....whee...........so to speak.

Amazing experience really awesome

Her: Wanna come over Me: But I’m working... Her: I’m home alone ;) Me:

“Morning Jeff” 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 gotta love it. Just another day at the office for these gentleman.

@SuperPirate100

3 жыл бұрын

It seems casual but it's a way of being sure Geoff knew I was there and ready to come down , the launch crew always bounce their weight on the bottom of the ladder to make sure it's secure. Working as a team with the launch crew ensures as few risks as possible .

@leftfield3836

3 жыл бұрын

@@SuperPirate100 UR THE MAN IN THE VIDEO!!!!!! UR THE PILOT!!!!!!!!

@SuperPirate100

3 жыл бұрын

@@leftfield3836 yes , I'm am 68 now and retired

@leftfield3836

3 жыл бұрын

@@SuperPirate100 WOW, never in a million years would’ve I expected to chat with the pilot I saw on a KZread vid. I mean this sincerely, thank you for your service the way I see it you were helping run the world. God bless. Thank you for this sir. I’ll never forget this.

@leftfield3836

3 жыл бұрын

Excuse the double “this”

A fairly large ship.... and. I thought my 6 meter boat was big.

@cubingwithcarl4572

4 жыл бұрын

HellTide_ Brock And now there is even plans on building a ship that’s 600 meters long lol

@herawatiharahap5702

4 жыл бұрын

Kapal

@charliedallachie3539

3 жыл бұрын

@@cubingwithcarl4572 heck let’s just build a floating city at that point.

@xz3693

3 жыл бұрын

You don't seem to know what a port pilot does...

@brock6286

3 жыл бұрын

@@xz3693 bold assumption considering my dads a harbour pilot lol

Great film. Thanks for sharing

that is brave, NO WAY could I do that

@etern6580

4 жыл бұрын

We seafarers do it

Awesome footage guys... Stay safe.

How nice of them to give you a ‘red-carpet’

@SuperPirate100

Жыл бұрын

Nearest I'll ever get to being royalty ! If you've not been on a ship before the path is non skid and is the safety walkway round the ship

Surly there should be a 20m or 30m retractable fall arrest cable. It should be mandatory on all ships.

@SuperPirate100

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely not , when a pilot step/ jumps off the ladder onto the launch you have to be free and clear of the ship, in rough weather the launch may be rising and falling 5 to 8 metres alongside the ship being pulled back by an arrest cable would stop you transferring onto the launch at the crest of a wave then riding it down into the trough .

Pantheon Tankers. Thats an awesome vessel

Wow 🙏 Thanks for sharing

She is gng on her ballast voyage

@SuperPirate100

5 жыл бұрын

Yes she was heading for west Africa to load for Europe

Morning Jeff!

Have done it for some years but no more. Simply when you feel that you cannot do it you just stop doing it. Otherwise it is not so hard as it appears to be (at least not always).

Very interesting but a strange question... is the chap on the pilot boat "Geoff" or "Jim"?

@SuperPirate100

5 жыл бұрын

Geoff

@ryker8902

5 жыл бұрын

the pilot is the one with the camera.

@ryanessex7978

5 жыл бұрын

@@ryker8902 He wasn't asking that you dip shit.

@hanchesterman5661

5 жыл бұрын

@@ryanessex7978 don't be rude

@TankR

4 жыл бұрын

@@hanchesterman5661 cheese marshmallows!

Salute to all seafarers..

Nice video.

So cool

The pilot boats always look so cool

@SuperPirate100

Жыл бұрын

The design of those boats is something over 40 years old now and they are all being replaced now with modern boats , I'm retired niw but hopefully the new boats will be more comfortable than the old ones which were really uncomfortable in rough weather and long runs .

Cool vid

It's always harder for a man to get off

@riley2005

5 жыл бұрын

abark wtf why

Amazing bro

amazing

Some pilots arrive by helo.

that ladder makes me nervous I wish there was a better way for them to geton and off the boat stay safe guys

I'm gonna join the merchant navy soon and specific part makes me most nervous. Lol

One massive ship wow

@SuperPirate100

5 жыл бұрын

Average size , she is a little over 150,000 tonnes, I hold the river record at 340,000 tonnes, even that is big but not massively big.

Good video

WHY IS MARK, THE SKIPPER OF THE PILOT BOAT, "NOT" WEARING HIS PFD ??

@SuperPirate100

Жыл бұрын

He is inside the boat , not required unless you leave the cabin

@petergarbutt9521

Жыл бұрын

@@SuperPirate100 NO DISRESPECT, YOU DESERVE YOUR RETIREMENT... YET THE UK PILOTS COP, SAYS, PILOT AND CREW, UPON LEAVING THE BIRTH, ARE RECOMMEND AND SHOULD BE WEARING THERE PFD CORRECTLY... BUT THEN CONTRADICTS ITSELF BY SAYING, PILOTS "NO MENTION OF CREW", SHOULD BE MADE AWARE OF WEARING AUTO PFD, INSIDE CABIN, FOR CAPSIZING OR FLOODING ISSUES, NOT IN THOSE EXACT WORDS ???... CANNOT FIND, ANY MENTION OF AUTO PFD INSIDE CABIN, FOR UK COMMERCIAL FISHERMAN COMPULSORY PFD USE... COMPLETELY OPEN TO PERSONNEL INTERPRETATION.. ENJOY YOUR RETIREMENT, STAY SAFE

Going down is easy, boarding is a different matter. Coffee Pilot? No, just oxygen......

@SuperPirate100

5 жыл бұрын

I'm just retired and never had any trouble going up.

@andrewknox7070

5 жыл бұрын

Nothing personal intended or implied, Edward, merely an observation. Have a good retirement.

@binrahmat.khairulnizam7743

5 жыл бұрын

Right on...🤗

Great username for a Pilot... there’s a good chance Blackbeard would have walked the street of my village!

Happy to be back 🙂

What kind of camera(good pic quality) and did you have helmet + installation for that?

@SuperPirate100

5 жыл бұрын

stuck to my hard hat, it's a gopro hero6 black in an armoured case

They rolled out the red carpet for him even. 😁

@SuperPirate100

5 жыл бұрын

See what you mean Dave, non skid paint is expensive so what they do is paint the deck with ordinary gloss paint , which is slippery as hell when wet, then they paint walkways in non skid paint in a contrasting colour, so wander off the red 'carpet' at your own risk .

@williamhendrix3253

5 жыл бұрын

Edward Teach I was wondering about that

Nice

Thks

WOW

What happens if the ship arrives at the port in the night? Does the pilot still climb the rope and planks ladder to get on the vessel to direct it to the harbour ? Or the ship has to wait till day break?

@SuperPirate100

3 жыл бұрын

Pilots and the port work 24 hours a day 365 days a year

I got dizzy just watching him do down the stairs.

Is your camera a intrinsically safe? Because if it wasnt, wonder how that tanker Capt / Company allowed you to...

@SuperPirate100

5 жыл бұрын

No but then neither was my hand held radio, personal man-overboard locator beacon, strobe light and water activated beacon, but then the camera , which is totally waterproof ( and gas tight) in it's own right and in a second armoured watertight case and on a safety line should be OK

@binrahmat.khairulnizam7743

5 жыл бұрын

That's a Greek Tanker... Just close an eye...🤗

Good job STS MUARA BERAU ANCHORAGE

Hi How pilots get on/off ship when it's pitching and rolling too much?

But where the fuck are u guys going? U left d ship 🚢

How much roughly for a ship that size for the pilotage out of port - are there numerous variables factored in ?

@SuperPirate100

Жыл бұрын

I've been retired for 4 years but a rough fee for a very large ship that needed 4 tugs and two pilots would be about 60 to 80K

Blimey it's no less precarious once you step off the ladder : I'd be holding on with both hands on that boat.

Greek Ship ???

@binrahmat.khairulnizam7743

5 жыл бұрын

T Yeah, the tourism posters gave it away as Hellas...🤗

I saw a very good camera, what's the brand of your body camera?

@SuperPirate100

3 жыл бұрын

Its a Go Pro hero 7 black

what’s up with the weird pathway on the deck of the tanker?

@SuperPirate100

5 жыл бұрын

To paint the whole deck with non skid paint would be expensive so the paint in ordinary paint and the red stripes you see are the safety walkways in non-skid , if the deck is try you can go were you like but when wet you have to be careful, all ships use this system.

What was the name of the ship? Looks familiar, certainly the poster in the stairwell does! Quite a few tankers this size load here on the Tees for discharge at IOJ, a d are restricted to a draft of about 12.5m due to the shallow nature of your estuary.

@SuperPirate100

4 жыл бұрын

Its the Astro Polaris , all Greek vessels have pictures of Greece in the alleyways and stairwells, on the Tetney Buoy the max draft is 15.2 metres , more or less full load but less upriver

@struck2soon

4 жыл бұрын

@@SuperPirate100 Yes, definitely been here on the Tees. I may have piloted it myself at some point, but with over five thousand acts of pilotage under my belt it gets hard to remember specific ships...

@rogerexwood6608

Жыл бұрын

@@SuperPirate100 Thanks for confirming this is on the Humber, good to know

The part that I hate, climbing down! 🤣

Whats the big deal🤔looks like me heading for the bathroom every morning 😁

@BoredAmerican

5 жыл бұрын

Stolen

@FrankieT666

5 жыл бұрын

@@BoredAmerican two comments up the guy didn't even get a like

Good

The fine anxiety can't hook the ratio.

Can a pilot go from an outbound ship right to an inbound or vice versa?

@captjim11

5 жыл бұрын

Yes and they commonly do

@ryanessex7978

5 жыл бұрын

Cruise ships have a door nearer the waterline for pilots, I know that for sure.

@SuperPirate100

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, done it a few times but don't like doing it, it makes for a very long day and driving someone else's ship while tired is not a very professional thing to do , also to get an inbound ship times with an outbound ship on a very tidal river is not an easy thing to do .

@binrahmat.khairulnizam7743

5 жыл бұрын

Happened when there are shortfalls...🤗

Why TF am I watching this at 3am

That day was a good day.

Hello Edward, I’m liking to see your videos, I always look for that tape of Chanel. Questio, You guys do that procedure at the night too?

@SuperPirate100

5 жыл бұрын

Yes , the river has 120 pilots, we work 11 days on 7 off and are on call 24 hours a day, so it matters not what time it is , we get a call, we go. A memorable one was we were about to sit down for Christmas dinner and the phone rang, that's it off you go , part of life of a pilot.

Very brave man..

@SuperPirate100

2 жыл бұрын

It's all part of the job which keeps ships moving , it's risky but not dangerous of you are careful.

@mariamargiannis7255

2 жыл бұрын

@@SuperPirate100 very gutsy ....I would panic if I had to that that's why I said brave man

Well i never, up until a month ago i never thought about this.but it's kind of interesting & a little dangerous. thanks

EASY BORDING! TRY THE, COLUMBIA RIVER BAR!!

can someone tell me why the swap pilots?

Edward Teach, or shall we call you Blackbeard? Lol. How long does it take to become a harbor pilot? My late uncle is was a ferry boat pilot in Seattle in the 80’s-90s.. I vaguely remember going up in the wheelhouse as a kid. I have pictures of my 3 year old self up there with him.

@SuperPirate100

5 жыл бұрын

Ahhh jim lad that well known Pirate, or maybe pilot. I went straight into piloting with a short training period, prior to this I had been in the British merchant navy for 32 years, the last 15 as Captain. If you have seagoing experience as a deck officer training on the Humber takes around 6 months to become a class 3 pilot for ships up to 10,000 tonnes , 3 years experience and another exam gets you to class 2 and 20,000 tons, further experience / exam gets you to 40,000 tons , over this you become a VLS pilot ( Very Large Ship) which is over 40,000 tonnes - I hold the river record of 340,000 tonnes .

@nobaddaystravel6855

5 жыл бұрын

Edward Teach seasons I learn something new everyday. I’m in the U.S. not sure what the qualifications are here for one. I live in West Texas the desert so no ships where I am. The closest port is 9 hours away in Galveston.

Great job. Lucky chap. Although, What about in a high sea and it's unsafe to get back to the pilot vessel ?

@SuperPirate100

5 жыл бұрын

Its always unsafe getting on and off , it relies on split second timing, get it wrong and a 25 tonne pilot launch is going to leave you as a red smear on the side of the ship , if it's rough you just look at it on a job by job basis. this was shot on a calm day with just 2 metres vertical movement between the ship and the launch .

@ryanessex7978

5 жыл бұрын

@@SuperPirate100 Yes, I get what your are saying. I myself have done an inherently dangerous job. Some jobs are as dangerous as you make them. If you concentrate on what you're doing and don't take unnecessary risks then you''ll probably be ok.

Those wind shield wipers are new to me, first time seeing something like those on a boat. Any chance you know more about the wind shield wipers? The company that makes them, they look automatic but I’m sure it’s a switch to turn them on and off but I kinda wanna know more about those.

@SuperPirate100

4 жыл бұрын

They are , if I recall correctly, they are by Wynn Marine Heavy Duty Straight Line Wipers, and are very common on pilot launches due to the very heavy work they have to do

It's called combination ladders

when you goin dowen word .in this point i think the one rope from top of ship you hoke with him and then you going down word after you reach safely he pul the rope ..

Wow…

A magic

No way in hell. Don't know what this job pays. But it ain't enough.

The crew on the larger vessel should have thrown a life belt over, and possible a smoke generator float, (1) To mark the spot (2) For the man overboard to hang onto. There were no man ropes. The rescue ladder should have been lowered sooner. Ive never been in favour of bringing a casualty onboard over the stern, due to swell and prop danger There should be a rescue ladder on both sides, and a hoist over the top of the wheelhouse that can be deployed on either side, pilot cutters have a tendency to roll heavenly in most weathers when stationary, (Much like hauling a net in on a Side Winder trawler) Useing the leeward side you use the role to your advantage. In fact I have hauled a man inboard over the side, without a ladder, using the role of the cutter, without the assistance of a hoist.

@SuperPirate100

10 күн бұрын

What manoverboard is this ? I think you have the wrong video , this a pilot disembarkation video

@bazra19

9 күн бұрын

Opps, forgive an 84 year for jumping ship mid stream.

👍👍👍👍👍👍

what happens if you miss a step or slip on the way down?

@SuperPirate100

5 жыл бұрын

You don't, the North sea can be pretty cool

@binrahmat.khairulnizam7743

5 жыл бұрын

Probably Overboard unless there is a safety line...🤗

Quite different than how they do it on a Cruise Ship.

@binrahmat.khairulnizam7743

5 жыл бұрын

This one an Oil Tanker...🤗

Scary as hell.

Large ships but no elevator what is that.

@flybeep1661

5 жыл бұрын

You American? I bet you are.

@SuperPirate100

5 жыл бұрын

An increasingly common feature , I berthed and sailed a 180,000 tonner with 7 decks in the accommodation and no elevator , her captain was getting on it years and really struggling , ships improved over the years but some are getting ever cheaper .

@binrahmat.khairulnizam7743

5 жыл бұрын

The have it all in the accommodations... Not outdoors, or else the Marine Engineers and Electrician would surely cursed The Naval Architect...🤗

@binrahmat.khairulnizam7743

5 жыл бұрын

Most new generation LR1, LR2 (Suezy) equipped with elevator in accoms...🤗

Is it a aframax class?

@binrahmat.khairulnizam7743

5 жыл бұрын

Think it's between Suezy to VLCC...🤗

Esos barcos tangrandes el peligro es que se pueden partir en una tormenta pero que inponentes son

how large is that ship

@SuperPirate100

4 жыл бұрын

Apologies , only just noticed your question , she is L 274, B 48 metres and 159,073 tonnes capacity