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Originally Posted by bill_daniels
Prognostication: Our government will spend tens of millions investigating this, and come up with a bunch of new diktats intended to prevent something like this from ever happening again, but won't suggest the obvious, which is, have the same tugboats that get the ships out of the port stay with those ships until they get past this bridge and are in the channel, heading the right direction.
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I'm pretty certain that all these ships are run by "Harbor Pilots" whose sole job is to navigate the ships in and out of the harbor safely. The entire reason for the harbor pilot is most sea captains are not familiar with every port they go to.
I knew a couple of men who were harbor pilots, and these guys were very highly experienced and very good at their jobs. They board many different vessels and run them in and out of harbors. And they are very very well compensated.