Real Life Incident: Improper Communication Leads to Tanker And Container Ship Collision

Real Life Incident: Improper Communication Leads to Tanker And Container Ship Collision

A container vessel was leaving port in darkness under the con of a pilot. The third officer and the Master were also on the bridge and a helmsman was steering by hand. On leaving the container ship, the pilot was scheduled to embark on an inbound tanker near the entrance of the buoyed port channel….