Maritime pilots guide everything from small cargo vessels to the latest megaships safely into ports around the world, using their expert local knowledge to navigate busy or complex waterways.

Probing the events leading up to last week’s collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, investigators started by focusing on the actions of one person who was aboard the ship that crashed into it: the ...

RANDERS, Denmark—Joergen Andersen’s usual commute takes him by boat to a 30-foot-long rope ladder dropped down the side of a ship in rolling seas. Before he clambers up the hull to reach the ship’s ...

In a global first, Denmark has approved testing a remote pilotage system that allows maritime pilots to guide vessels from shore using real-time data instead of boarding ships at sea. The program, ...

From the Puget Sound Pilots headquarters in downtown Seattle, with a view of Puget Sound as a backdrop, Capt. Ivan Carlson Jr. walks Scripps News' Vanessa Misciagna through an unfolding situation: A ...

BALTIMORE -- The expert pilots who navigate massive ships in and out of Baltimore's port must often maneuver with just 2 feet (0.6 meter) of clearance from the channel floor and memorize charts, ...