Pilot Emergency
guide
PART 5 DanPilot
Your Time, Your Safety – Our Commitment
INTRODUCTION
This document is meant to be a help and assistance to
pilots in case of an emergency, therefore it is published as
a simple booklet, easy to use in a stressful situation.
The PEG is a living document so if you have an experi-
ence not covered by the PEG, please contact the chief
pilot to update the PEG or if you have any suggestions to
improve and supplement the PEG.
General considerations:
All external communication in DanPilot, should only be
done from management level.
Be aware that all ships have VDR installed on the bridge.
Consider what you are saying.
Take notes during incidents, it makes it easier to write a
report.
Consider a voluntary drug and alcohol test.
Always make sure any emergency or incidents are
handed over to your reliever.
SafePilot should always be activated for recording
purposes.
When you have expired a stressful situation a relieve
of you should always be considered, do not hesitate to
ask for replacement.
An official report should be made in cooperation with the
chief pilot.
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CONTENTS
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INDHOLD
PILOTAGE 4
1. Air draft exceeding limits
2. Draft exceeding limits
3. Black Out
4. Collision
5. Collision with bridge
6. Deviation of pilotage recommendation
7. Unexpected / excessive squat
8. Low water level
9. Grounding
10. Fire on board
11. Pollution, own or other vessels
12. Equipment failure/missing equipment
13. Repeated engine failure
14. Rudder / steering gear failure
15. Damaged Pilot ladder
16. Helicopter hoist
PERSONAL
1. Man over board (MOB)
2. Terror threat towards the vessel
3. Participation in search and rescue
4. Crewmember and/or captain intoxicated or under
influence of drug or alcohol
5. Colleague ill or dead
6. Crewmember ill or dead
CPR
NOTES
CONTACTS
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PILOTAGE
1. AIR DRAFT EXCEEDING LIMITS
Checklist
Stop vessel or reduce speed
Check / change route
in cooperation with Captain
Can airdraft be reduced by ballasting
Check weather forecast (water level)
Contact Pilot Duty Phone
MAS / VTS
Find suitable anchorage area if necessary
Inform VTS/other vessels about
intensions if necessary
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2. DRAFT EXCEEDING LIMITS
Checklist
Pilot Certificate (before boarding):
Call Dispatch and check if replacement is possible
If not contact Pilot Duty Phone
Pilot Certificate (when boarding):
Contact Pilot Duty Phone
Check nearby traffic (Colleagues)
Consider reducing speed
Check weather/current/waterlevel/tide
Use all available navigation equipment
Ships draft over recommended limit:
Stop vessel or reduce speed
Check / change route in cooperation with Captain
Can draft be reduced by deballasting or other means.
Contact Pilot Duty Phone
MAS / VTS
Ships draft exceeding loadline:
Contact Pilot Duty Phone
Can ship be deballasted
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PILOTAGE
3. BLACK OUT
Checklist
Traffic situation
Check position, direction of drift
Depth, type of seabed, cables / pipe lines
Anchors ready
Broadcast safety message on VHF ch 16, DSC
Exit route/TSS if safe
Consider anchoring vessel until problem solved
Nav. signals / AIS status NOT UNDER COMMAND
MAS / VTS
Contact Pilot Duty Phone
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4. COLLISION
Checklist
Stop engine(s)
Ask for general alarm to be activated
Get overview of hull damages
Consider beaching if risk of sinking
Traffic situation
Check position, direction of drift
Depth, type of seabed, cables / pipe lines
Anchors ready
Consider anchorage area
Broadcast safety message on VHF ch 16, DSC.
Establish communication with the other vessel
Exit route / TSS if safe
Nav. signals / AIS status NOT UNDER
COMMAND / RESTRICTED MANUVERBILITY
MAS / VTS
Contact Pilot Duty Phone
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PILOTAGE
5. COLLISION WITH BRIDGE
Checklist
If time allows angel of impact
Engines maneuvers
Get overview of:
hull damages
pollution
risk of sinking
Consider use of anchor to stay in position
Consider beaching if risk of sinking
Depth, type of seabed, cables / pipe lines
Nav. signals / AIS status
MAS / VTS
Contact bridge control, if manned
Contact other vessels in vicinity of the bridge,
if outside VTS area
Contact Pilot Duty Phone
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6. DEVIATION OF PILOTAGE
RECOMMENDATION
Checklist
Before boarding:
Use Anysense and fill in the DPR reprot
After boarding:
Repeat loud and clearly advice to master
Ask master to sign Deviation of Pilot
Recommendation via Anysense
Contact MAS / VTS and inform about
the situation
Contact Pilot Duty Phone
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PILOTAGE
7. UNEXPECTED / EXCESSIVE SQUAT
Checklist chart:
Depth
Shallow patches
Last survey
ZOC
Current
Other vessels (Squat can increase when overtaking)
Tide predictions
Contact Pilot Duty Phone
MAS /VTS
Checklist Monitor:
Vibrations
Poor steering
Aft wakes
Speed
Double check draft, transfer of ballast / fuel
Squat in confined waters (not found in transit):
Squat = V2/50 * C (V=Speed and C=box coefficients)
Squat in open waters:
Squat=V2/100 * C (V=Speed and C=box coefficients)
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8. LOW WATER LEVEL
Checklist
Stop vessel or reduce speed
Check / change route
in cooperation with Captain
Can draft be reduced by deballasting
or other means
Check weather forecast / water level
Contact Pilot Duty Phone
MAS / VTS
Find suitable anchorage area
Inform VTS / other vessels about intensions
if necessary
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9. GROUNDING
Checklist:
Consider stop engine(s)
Get overview of:
hull damages
pollution
risk of sinking
Consider use of anchor to stay in position
Depth, type of seabed, cables / pipe lines
Broadcast safety message on VHF ch 16, DSC.
Nav. signals / AIS status AGROUND
MAS / VTS, MAS should be contacted
as soon as possible
Contact Pilot Duty Phone
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10. FIRE ONBOARD
Checklist:
Assist ship’s crew with external communication
Traffic situation
Leave route / TSS
Position vessel in the best wind direction
to lead fire and smoke away from vessel
Broadcast safety message on VHF ch 16, DSC.
Consider use of anchor to stay in position
Depth, type of seabed, cables / pipe lines
Nav. signals / AIS status NOT UNDER COMMAND
MAS / VTS
Contact Pilot Duty Phone
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PILOTAGE
11. POLLUTION
OWN OR OTHER VESSELS
Checklist:
If informed by crew:
Check pollution has stopped
Contact MAS (VTS if in VTS Area)
Contact Pilot Duty Phone
Check weather forecast
Find suitable anchorage area
Inform VTS / other vessels about intension
if necessary
If observed by Pilot:
Inform crew and stop the pollution
Contact MAS (VTS if in VTS area)
Contact Pilot Duty Phone
Check weather forecast
Find suitable anchorage area
Inform VTS / other vessels about intensions
if necessary
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12. EQUIPMENT FAILURE /
MISSING EQUIPMENT
Anchor winch failure. Checklist:
If approaching anchorage:
Abort approach and find suitable area for drifting
If emergency anchorage:
Make decision that improves safety for all onboard
and the environment
Contact MAS (VTS if in VTS area)
Contact Pilot Duty Phone
Check weather forecast
Inform VTS / vessels about intensions if necessary
Missing anchor:
Contact MAS (VTS if in VTS area)
Contact Pilot Duty Phone Check
Check weather forecast
Find suitable drifting area
Inform VTS / vessels about intensions if necessary
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PILOTAGE
13. REPEATED ENGINE FAILURE
Checklist:
Traffic situation
Check position, direction of drift
Depth, type of seabed, cables / pipe lines
Anchors ready
Broadcast safety message on VHF ch 16, DSC.
Exit route / TSS if safe
Consider anchoring vessel until problem solved
Nav. signals / AIS status NOT UNDER COMMAND
MAS / VTS
Contact Pilot Duty Phone
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14. RUDDER / STEERING GEAR FAILURE
Checklist:
Activate emergency steering
Traffic situation
Check position, direction of drift
Depth, type of seabed, cables / pipe lines
Anchors ready
Possible use of thrusters
Broadcast safety message on VHF ch 16, DSC.
Exit route / TSS if safe
Nav. signals / AIS status NOT UNDER COMMAND
MAS / VTS
Contact Pilot Duty Phone
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PILOTAGE
15. DAMAGED PILOT LADDER
Checklist:
Discovered before boarding:
Abandon the boarding
Call vessel and inform accordingly
Evaluate if boarding safely can be made after
the pilot ladder has been exchanged
Consider pilotage from pilot boat until new pilot
ladder has been rigged
Contact MAS / VTS
Contact to Pilot Duty Phone
Discovered after boarding:
Inform the vessel accordingly
Contact to Pilot Duty Phone
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16. HELICOPTER HOIST
Checklist:
Check and consider wind and weather
Communication internal /external
Dedicated landing area / hoist area for helicopter
Find suitable / safe area for vessels in coopera-
tion with Master
MAS / VTS
Other traffic
Contact to Pilot Duty Phone
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PERSONAL
1. MAN OVER BOARD (MOB)
Checklist:
Sound the MOB-alarm
Co-ordinate situation with Captain /
Officer on Watch (OOW)
Asses the present area / weather and inform
traffic in the area about the MOB situation
MOB announcement on channel 16
If inside VTS-area; update VTS
Contact to MAS. Remember follow-up.
Contact Pilot Duty Phone
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2. TERROR THREAT
TOWARDS THE VESSEL
Checklist:
Assist with communication to Authorities,
e.g. MAS
Contact to Pilot Duty Phone
If inside VTS-area; update VTS
Can the voyage continue or is the present
voyage to be terminated?
Determination of which form of
communication that can be used.
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PERSONAL
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3. PATICIPATION IN
SEARCH AND RESCUE
Checklist:
How can Danpilot / Pilot / vessel assist without
compromising safe pilotage, taken size of vessel
and area into consideration?
In cooperation with vessel master consider how
the vessel can assist
Can the voyage / pilotage continue or is the
present voyage / pilotage to be terminated?
Contact to MAS. Remember follow-up.
If inside VTS-area; update VTS
Contact Pilot Duty Phone
Update Pilot board
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4. CREWMEMBER AND/OR CAPTAIN
INTOXICATED OR UNDER INFLUENCE
OF DRUG OR ALCOHOL
Checklist:
If harbour pilotage departure:
Inform the Captain about your suspicion
and leave the vessel
Contact Pilot Duty Phone / Chief Pilot
Contact to MAS / VTS. Remember follow-up
Contact to Dispatch
If harbour arrival:
Inform the Captain about your suspicion
Contact Pilot Duty Phone / Chief Pilot
Consider approach to be abandoned
and / or go to anchorage
Contact to MAS / VTS. Remember follow-up
If transit:
Inform the Captain about your suspicion
Contact Pilot Duty Phone
Contact to MAS / VTS. Remember follow-up
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PERSONAL
5. COLLEAGUE ILL OR DEAD
Checklist:
Stop the accident – First Aid
Contact to MAS / VTS; necessary?
Remember follow-up
In cooperation with duty Chief Pilot / deputy
pilot evaluate the influence on the pilotage or
Bridge Recourse Management?
Can the voyage / pilotage continue or is
shelter / anchorage necessary - recommended?
Update vessel on situation
and precautions made
If inside VTS-area; update VTS
Remember follow-up
Contact Pilot Duty Phone
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6. CREWMEMBER ILL OR DEAD
Checklist:
How can Danpilot / Pilot assist without
compromising safe pilotage?
Has the incident influence on the pilotage or
Bridge Recourse Management?
Can the voyage / pilotage continue or is shelter /
anchorage necessary - recommended?
Contact to Pilot Duty Phone - necessary?
Contact to MAS/VTS - necessary?
Remember follow-up
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CPR
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CPR
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CONTACTS
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MAS vagten
(Singel point contact)............ 0045 7285 0370
Pilot duty phone.................... 995
Pilot duty phone
from outside DK.................... 0045 5118 4050
DanPilot operations............... 0045 6325 6666
VTS Great Belt....................... 0045 5837 6868
VTS Sound............................ 0046 7716 30600
Radio Medical....................... 0045 7545 6750
Gøteborg pilot....................... 0046 7716 30670
Gøteborg VTS....................... 0046 7716 30660
Lysekilde / Brofjorden........... 0046 7716 30650
Malmø pilot .......................... 0046 40204351
Malmø VTS ........................... 0046 40204317
Vagthavende ved
DMA ang bøjer...................... 0045 72196041
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