Comments on: NTSB/USCG Report on Cosco Busan – Analysis of the Analysis

By: S. Moore

S. Moore — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:06:31 +0000

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By: Luís Vale (pilot)

Luís Vale (pilot) — Mon, 11 May 2009 10:07:08 +0000

The problem with these reports is the tendency to find culprits, instead of making an holistic approach and try to make useful recommendations in order to avoid re-occurrence. Issues like pilot training, retirement age of pilots, commercial pressure from owner and/or port authorities and the worldwide lowering of ship’s crew quality should be addressed.
The lack of international common standards for pilot certification, training and recruitment is also unexplainable. IMO should take a proactive approach on this subject and enforce STCW-like regulations for pilots.
It is not necessary to come up with new ideas, just look at what the aviation industry has accomplished in the last decades regarding the training and certification of airline pilots.

By: pilotding44

pilotding44 — Sun, 10 May 2009 13:27:18 +0000

Both Master and Pilot suffer the commercial pressure,which nobody mention therein,In many country,port authority will limit ship's movement under heavy dence fog situation. Capt.Ding

By: Kennebec Captain

Kennebec Captain — Sat, 09 May 2009 20:37:07 +0000

Interesting post. There is in fact more then one route from the berth to the sea,. We know of at least two, the one the Cosco Busan followed and the one evidently followed by all the other vessels that made it sea without getting in the news. The planned route, which existed only in the pilots head, should have been made know in some concrete form to the bridge team so that they could have monitored the vessels progress. It doesn't matter how many officers are on the bridge if none of them knows what the pilot intents to do.