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To: Chad Fairbanks

I'm being to think he didn't get to the Port of Philly........the river pilots are placed on board when a ship reachs the Delaware Bay as it makes its trek up the Bay into the Delaware River.


90 posted on 07/22/2004 11:14:11 AM PDT by Dog (EVERYONE, Please check your socks for inadvertent documents.)
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To: Dog

Good point. Do you think the reporter screwed up, and it was the pilot that actually saw something odd and reported it?


94 posted on 07/22/2004 11:16:00 AM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Liberals - The Other White Meat.)
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To: Dog

Actually the pilot comes on board out in the ocean, just outside Delaware Bay, and a good 125 miles away from Philadelphia.

One thing I think many people caught up in "terror ship" hype aren't aware of is that every tanker and freighter that enters a US port is guided there by an American pilot who comes on board and takes over, and that these pilots typically get on the ship quite a long way from any ports or cities.

Conceivable that the "pilot" was confused with "ship's master" somehow.


108 posted on 07/22/2004 11:18:53 AM PDT by Strategerist
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