Real Life Incident: Mobile Phone Distraction – Huge Salvage Extraction

Salvage Extraction

The pilot was using his Portable Pilot Unit (PPU) as the primary means of navigation, as was his practice – he cited reliability and other issues with equipment that was not his own as his reasons for preferring this. However, no equipment failures had been cited on this vessel.

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When the relieving OOW came to the bridge, the pilot was conning the vessel but was also on his mobile phone on a personal call, as he had been for the past 47 minutes. About eight...

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