Good questions. State licensed pilots are used to guide foreign vessels safely into and out of Baltimore. Don’t know if one was onboard at the time or not.
Equal Opportunity staff at the helm.
There was a pilot aboard but have not been able to find more than that.
Someone else posted a very good youtube video from a channel "What's going on with shipping."
the narrator mentioned the ship had both a Baltimore harbor pilot and a Chesapeake Bay pilot on board. somehow the ship got slightly outside the main channel, but there was no explanation of that.