2) Lemme tell you about pilots. Pilots are tug boats or crew who lead you through challenging passages. Usually harbours or narrow water ways. The Suez requires you to hand over control of your boat to a government endorsed pilot crew. Some pilots are great. Suez Pilots are not
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3) they don’t protecc. They don’t atacc. Mainly they sleep and snacc. Yep. The Suez takes roughly 13 hours for a big ship to navigate. I have yet to hear of a diligent Seuz pilot who actually stayed at the helm even half that time. And pilots are not free. We pay extra for them
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a small private boat pays $500-1000 US. The
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#EVERGIVEN got stuck in a sand storm with 40kt gusts&no visiblity. This is totally enough to blow them off course&disorient them, they’d be working off radar and sonar. Factor in possible confusion of who was responsible for driving, the pilot of the officer of the watch?Show this thread -
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#EVERGIVEN Officer &#Evergreen crew. I am truly amazed at your soft landing. I’m sorry no one is talking about the low quality Suez pilot crew who was supposed to be driving (I’m sorry to the good Suez pilots, I know you’re out there somewhere not napping & working hard)Show this thread -
Considering 10% of the world’s shipping traffic goes through the Suez, the fact that government endorsed mandatory suez pilots are negligent& harsss female crew in one of the world’s busiest canals should be known outside the boating world. Good luck
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Oh wow this is blowing up. I’m muting the thread but will continue to answer serious questions put to me. Remember suez pilots are horrible and believe women sailors. don’t tell us to ‘deal with it’
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Since this viral and out of my control now- I’m am not bashing the qualifications of BIPOC from non-white countries. Most container ship captains and crew are not white and often based out of China. I’m am exclusively calling out the behaviour of suez pilots towards woman&crews
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Thanks for posting this thread. It definitely makes me look at what's happening very differently.
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I agree. Thank you. I learned a lot.
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